Wednesday, November 10, 2010
November 10, 2010
You may know from the news that the Administrative Court has ruled unlawful Eric Pickles’s revocation of regional strategies in England. He’ll have to wait until his Localism Bill comes into force in order to abolish them. Sales J’s judgment is interesting as an application of the Padfield principle, that ministers’ statutory powers must be [...]
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November 10, 2010
It was always obvious that Parliamentary privilege doesn’t prevent the trial of MPs accused of expenses fraud – and unsurprisingly, the Supreme Court has ruled that it doesn’t. There’s no written judgment yet, but I’ll link to it when it’s available. In the meantime, you might be interested in the Court of Appeal judgment given [...]
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