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  • Can Jeremy Corbyn be kept off Labour’s leadership ballot?

    Carl Gardner
    July 11, 2016

    This is the question in the minds of practically everyone in the Labour party today, as Angela Eagle announces her leadership challenge following MPs’ recent overwhelming vote of no confidence in the leader. The future of Labour politics and, in the […]

  • Article 50, and UK constitutional law

    Carl Gardner
    June 27, 2016

    If you’ve been following closely news about Britain’s EU referendum and its aftermath, you’ll probably have heard of article 50 of the Treaty on European Union which makes provision for a member state to leave the EU and lays […]

    Tags: constitution, eu law, eu referendum, government, parliament, prerogative
  • The draft EU (Voter Registration) Regulations 2016

    Carl Gardner
    June 9, 2016

    Here are the draft regulations that will […]

    Tags: elections, government, judicial review, legislation, parliament
  • How to extend the referendum voter registration deadline

    Carl Gardner
    June 8, 2016

    In response to the overloading of the website where people could register to vote in the coming EU referendum, government is apparently considering how it can extend the deadline (which expired at midnight) by a day:

    Mr Cameron said […]

    Tags: elections, electoral commission, government, legislation, parliament
  • Pannick and Lester on the “British Bill of Rights”

    Carl Gardner
    June 2, 2016

    Lords Pannick and Lester have form for writing together on human rights, and today Pannick writes on the subject in the Times, while Lester comments in The Brief.

    Pannick makes fun of the long delay in […]

    Tags: british bill of rights, human rights
  • Why Michael Gove should drop his Bill of Rights plans

    Carl Gardner
    May 9, 2016
  • Let’s have proper no-fault divorce

    Carl Gardner
    March 11, 2016

    MPs are due today to debate the principle of Richard Bacon MP’s No-fault Divorce Bill.

    What’s interesting about this bill is how very unradical it is. When we talk about “no fault divorce” most of us mean taking […]

    Tags: divorce, family, parliament
  • Gove can roll his own smoking ban:
    R (Black) v Justice Secretary

    Carl Gardner
    March 8, 2016

    Carsten ten Brink | CreativeCommonsDoes the smoking ban in public places apply to prisons? No, the Court of Appeal has said, in a judgment today. The ruling […]

    Tags: government, health, interpretation, legislation
  • What Boris told us about the “sovereignty plan”

    Carl Gardner
    March 7, 2016

    Boris MarrSince I wrote about David Cameron’s “sovereignty plan”, it seems to have been forgotten. It’s clear the idea was aimed at keeping politicians in the Remain camp, and has failed.

    Tags: constitution, eu law, parliamentary sovereignty, UK Supreme Court
  • What is Parliamentary sovereignty, anyway?

    Carl Gardner
    February 23, 2016

    Albert_Venn_Dicey_in_academic_robes - Version 2As we await David Cameron’s sovereignty plan this week, it might help to explain what we mean by “Parliamentary sovereignty”.

    When we talk about Parliamentary sovereignty, we don’t mean a general notion […]

    Tags: constitution, eu law, human rights, US constitution
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