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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a… more
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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by United Kingdom — Reposted by: Colin Murray, Rory O’Connell, Gráinne McKeever
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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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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by United Kingdom — Reposted by: Aileen McHarg, Daniel Wincott
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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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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Alex Benn: In Crisis: the ‘Constitutional’ Right to Jury Trial ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/18/a...
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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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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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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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by United Kingdom — Reposted by: John Foot, Aileen McHarg
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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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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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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by United Kingdom — Reposted by: Colin Murray, Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou
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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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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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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Leah Trueblood: An Injustice in the Law of Information Rights: Tortoise Media Ltd v Conservative Party and Unionist Party ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/06/11/l...
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Penelope Cassandra Webb: Silences, Spectacle, and the Limitations of Law ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/06/05/s...
Penelope Cassandra Webb: Silences, Spectacle, and the Limitations of Law
The decision of the UK Supreme Court in For Women Scotland Ltd v Scottish Ministers [2025] is one that has generated a rapid response, from the photos of those celebrating the decision on the steps…
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Antonia Layard: Darwall and the Public Life of Private Property ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/06/04/a...
Antonia Layard: Darwall and the Public Life of Private Property
When wealthy landowners, Alexander and Diana Darwall, sued a national park authority to stop people pitching their tents on the Dartmoor Commons, few expected the dispute to take a constitutional t…
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Dane Luo: There is ‘Advice’ and then there is ‘advice’: The Constitutional Conventions on the Appointment of the Prime Minister ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/05/29/d...
Dane Luo: There is ‘Advice’ and then there is ‘advice’: The Constitutional Conventions on the Appointment of the Prime Minister
On 23 May 2025, the Court of Appeal held that the Conservative Party was not exercising a ‘public function’ for the purposes of s 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998 when it elected Liz Truss as party l…
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Robert Mullins: For Women Scotland: Fastening the “Biological” Straitjacket ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/05/22/r...
Robert Mullins: For Women Scotland: Fastening the “Biological” Straitjacket
In her excellent and informed critique of the Supreme Court’s judgment in For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers [2025] UKSC 16 (“FWS”), Crash Wigley notes that in its judgment the Court negle…
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Stefan Theil: Medical Incapacity and the UK Constitution
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Stefan Theil: Medical Incapacity and the UK Constitution
In the United Kingdom, the mental health of politicians has traditionally commanded relatively little attention, perhaps due to popular cynicism and distrust towards elected officials. Still, those…
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Conor Casey: Is the Law Officers’ Legal Advice Binding on the Government? ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/05/19/c...
Conor Casey: Is the Law Officers’ Legal Advice Binding on the Government?
There are two distinct senses in which one can ask whether the Law Officers’ legal advice is “binding” on the government. The first is whether the legal advice of the Law Officers can be set aside …
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