Information About Administrative Law Matters

One of the issues which recurred in the UK Supreme Court’s hearing of the prorogation litigation this week (see my posts here, here and here) was whether the grounds of review applied to exercises of statutory powers are equally applicable to prerogative powers. The Court’s previous decision in R (S … Read more »

In a bombshell judgment last week, the Inner House of the Court of Session unanimously held in Cherry v Advocate General [2019] CSIH 49 that Prime Minister Johnson’s advice to prorogue Parliament was unlawful. Eleven judges of the UK Supreme Court will begin hearing the prorogation litigation tomorr … Read more »

In 2010, I wrote an article in Public Law which is newly relevant because of court challenges to Boris Johnson’s advice to the Queen to prorogue Parliament. I’ve uploaded the paper to SSRN. Here is the abstract: In this paper, published in 2010 but relevant again as the UK courts consider the lawful … Read more »

I found the decision of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales in Ofsted v Secretary of State for Education [2018] EWCA Civ 2813 to be a nice illustration of two important phenomena: first, the extent to which administrators internalize the norms generated by judicial development of the principles … Read more »

The term “quasi-constitutional” is sometimes attached to statutes said or held to have special status relative to other statutes. Typically, the “quasi-constitutional” statute is one which protects or seeks to entrench important individual rights. But there is no reason that only statutes concerned … Read more »