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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · 2d
Cassandra Somers-Joce: A New Chapter for Governmental Candour? The Public Office (Accountability) Bill ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/10/06/c...
Cassandra Somers-Joce: A New Chapter for Governmental Candour? The Public Office (Accountability) Bill
The Public Office (Accountability) Bill was introduced into the House of Commons on 16 September 2025. It gives effect to the Labour Party’s 2024 Manifesto commitment to introduce a ‘Hillsborough L…
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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · 21d
Francesca Jackson: The Oath of Allegiance, and the Battle for Independence ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/09/17/f...
Francesca Jackson: The Oath of Allegiance, and the Battle for Independence
In the UK and Commonwealth, an oath of allegiance is a promise to be loyal to the monarch, their heirs and successors. Also known as ‘swearing in’, it is pledged in various contexts, including at t…
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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · 23d
Richard Brant and Lauren Butler: Reform UK’s Plans for “Getting Tough on Illegal Immigration”: From Legal Reset to Sunset
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Richard Brant and Lauren Butler: Reform UK’s Plans for “Getting Tough on Illegal Immigration”: From Legal Reset to Sunset
On 26 August 2025 Nigel Farage (Leader of Reform UK) and Zia Yusuf (now Head of Policy at Reform UK) unveiled their plan titled, ‘Operation Restoring Justice’. Key points from the plan were also re…
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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · 26d
Events: Global South Network Guest Lecture/Public Law Call for Editors/Centre for Constitutions in Context Inaugural Lecture/ Book Launch ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/09/12/e...
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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · 26d
Stephen Tierney: The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill – a dangerous licence for executive law-making ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/09/12/s...
Stephen Tierney: The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill – a dangerous licence for executive law-making
The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is now in the House of Lords. After months of frantic activity in the Commons there is an opportunity for Parliament to draw breath and for the upper ho…
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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · 27d
Jonathan Collinson: From Learning to Lawyering: When Can Political Accountability Have Legal Consequences?
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Jonathan Collinson: From Learning to Lawyering: When Can Political Accountability Have Legal Consequences?
The responsibility for holding the government to account for its failings is the core constitutional role of a range of ‘watchdog’ bodies outside of Parliament, such as inspectorates, commissioners…
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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · 29d
Paul F Scott: The power to do what exactly? MI6’s functional vires ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/09/09/p...
Paul F Scott: The power to do what exactly? MI6’s functional vires
On 31 July, the final day of Trinity term, and so of the legal year, there was published by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal an OPEN judgment in a case entitled A Complainant v The Secret Int…
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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · Sep 4
Gareth Evans: The Devolution of the Crown Estate in Wales ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/09/04/g...
Gareth Evans: The Devolution of the Crown Estate in Wales
On 22 July 2025, the Crown Estate (Wales) Bill passed unopposed through report stage in the House of Lords. The Bill, which seeks to devolve the management of the Crown Estate in Wales, was introdu…
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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · Sep 3
David Erdos: How Exposed? The Information Commissioner’s Office and the Afghan Spreadsheet Data Breach ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/09/03/d...
David Erdos: How Exposed? The Information Commissioner’s Office and the Afghan Spreadsheet Data Breach
On 17 August 2023 the Ministry of Defence (MoD) put the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on broad notice about the devastating failure of data protection that is now generally known as the A…
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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · Jul 25
Anurag Deb and Nicholas Kilford: Conditioning the UK Parliament’s Power to Legislate for a Devolved Part of the UK: Part II – Some Challenges Posed by Northern Ireland
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Anurag Deb and Nicholas Kilford: Conditioning the UK Parliament’s Power to Legislate for a Devolved Part of the UK: Part II – Some Challenges Posed by Northern Ireland
Introduction In its judgments in Continuity Bill and Treaty Incorporation, the Supreme Court identified what we describe in the first part of this post as the ‘conditioning limitation’. The purpose…
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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · Jul 23
Paolo Sandro: Parliamentary democracy under the veil of secrecy: the Afghan leak super-injunction case as a bonfire of constitutional principles
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Paolo Sandro: Parliamentary democracy under the veil of secrecy: the Afghan leak super-injunction case as a bonfire of constitutional principles
Introduction On Tuesday last week it emerged that a mind-boggling data breach by the UK government – and the momentous policy decisions taken in its wake – had been kept a secret from all but a han…
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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · Jul 22
Anurag Deb and Nicholas Kilford: Conditioning the UK Parliament’s power to legislate for a devolved part of the UK: Part I – The Climate Change Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/22/a...
Anurag Deb and Nicholas Kilford: Conditioning the UK Parliament’s power to legislate for a devolved part of the UK: Part I – The Climate Change Act (Northern Ireland) 2022
Introduction The Climate Change Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (‘CCA’) is, from a constitutional perspective, a fairly unassuming, if far-reaching, exercise of devolved legislative power. It is an exa…
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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · Jul 22
David Erdos: The UK Information Commissioner’s Annual Report 2024/25: Surveying a Systematic Trend Away from Adequate Enforcement ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/22/d...
David Erdos: The UK Information Commissioner’s Annual Report 2024/25: Surveying a Systematic Trend Away from Adequate Enforcement
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) Annual Report for 2024/25 released last week sadly provides evidence of a severe and serious weakening of information rights regulation compared to the s…
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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · Jul 21
Thomas Horsley: Reforming the UK Internal Market: The UK Government’s Response to the Review of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/21/t...
Thomas Horsley: Reforming the UK Internal Market: The UK Government’s Response to the Review of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020
On 15th July 2025, the UK Government (UKG) published its response to its review and public consultation on Parts 1 and 2 of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 (UKIMA). The Response confirm…
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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · Jul 18
Announcement: UKCLA Blog Summer Break ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/18/a...
Announcement: UKCLA Blog Summer Break
The UKCLA blog will shortly take its annual summer break, running from Monday 28 July to Monday 1 September. Thank you to all of our authors and readers in the first part of 2025 – we hope you have…
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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · Jul 18
Alex Benn: In Crisis: the ‘Constitutional’ Right to Jury Trial ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/18/a...
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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · Jul 14
Lewis Graham: Who Wins and Who Loses Before the Administrative Court? ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/14/l...
Lewis Graham: Who Wins and Who Loses Before the Administrative Court?
Despite the Ministry of Justice releasing some helpful but limited data relating to judicial reviews, it is hard to know who wins, and who loses, before the Administrative Court. In an attempt to f…
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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · Jul 10
George Peretz: The Labour Case for the ECHR ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/10/g...
George Peretz:  The Labour Case for the ECHR
In a series of posts on this blog, the legal historian Sanjit Nagi has outlined both a history of Labour scepticism about the European Convention of Human Rights (“ECHR”) (and in particular about t…
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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · Jul 9
Ting Xu: The Legal Fiction of State Neutrality: Rethinking Accountability in Disability Home Adaptations ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/09/t...
Ting Xu: The Legal Fiction of State Neutrality: Rethinking Accountability in Disability Home Adaptations
How should the state be held to account when it funds and organises essential services—but then denies responsibility for their failure? This post examines that question through the lens of disabil…
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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · Jul 8
Nour Haidar: Home Secretary vs Palestine Action: The Constitutional Implications of Widening the Legal Understanding of Terrorism ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/08/n...
Nour Haidar: Home Secretary vs Palestine Action: The Constitutional Implications of Widening the Legal Understanding of Terrorism
On 23 June 2025 the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, announced in Parliament that she had “decided to proscribe Palestine Action under section 3 of the Terrorism Act 2000.” Section 3 of the 2000 Act …
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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · Jul 7
Gabriel Tan: R (Al-Haq) v Business and Trade Secretary: A Death Knell for Common Law Domestic Footholds for Unincorporated Treaties? ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/07/g...
Gabriel Tan: R (Al-Haq) v Business and Trade Secretary: A Death Knell for Common Law Domestic Footholds for Unincorporated Treaties?
In September 2024, the Business and Trade Secretary (‘the Secretary of State’)suspended licences authorising the export of items that might be used in carrying out or facilitating Israeli military …
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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · Jul 3
Mara Malagodi: The State of the Comparative Constitutional Law Field and the Re-Launch of Constitutional Studies ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/03/u...
Mara Malagodi: The State of the Comparative Constitutional Law Field and the Re-Launch of Constitutional Studies
Over the past three decades or so, comparative constitutional law has greatly advanced both as a site of scholarly inquiry and professional practice. As the field’s jurisdictional and thematic focu…
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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · Jul 2
Sanjit Nagi: A Road to Nowhere: Reforming the European Convention on Human Rights ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/02/s...
Sanjit Nagi: A Road to Nowhere: Reforming the European Convention on Human Rights
Over the last few weeks criticism of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR/the Convention) and suggestions that the United Kingdom (U.K) should attempt to reform the supranational instrumen…
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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · Jun 25
Francesca Jackson: King Charles, the Speech from the Throne and the Constitutional Shift from the ‘Dignified’ to the ‘Efficient’: A Challenge to the Doctrine of Political Neutrality? ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/06/25/f...
Francesca Jackson: King Charles, the Speech from the Throne and the Constitutional Shift from the ‘Dignified’ to the ‘Efficient’: A Challenge to the Doctrine of Political Neutrality?
Bagehot famously made a distinction between the ‘dignified’ and ‘efficient’ parts of the Constitution (Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution (London: Henry S. King and Company 1867)).  The forme…
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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · Jun 16
Conor Casey: The “Constitutional Oddity” at the Centre of Government Lawyering in the United Kingdom: A Note on the First Treasury Counsel ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/06/16/c...
Conor Casey: The “Constitutional Oddity” at the Centre of Government Lawyering in the United Kingdom: A Note on the First Treasury Counsel
More attention has been paid in recent years to the important role government lawyers play in many constitutional systems, and the Janus-faced impact they have on executive authority. On the one ha…
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