That video gives the impression, doesn’t it, that Rishi Sunak was going to “shred” retained EU law within a hundred days? That […]

A Supreme Court judgment recently held that a digital newspaper isn’t a newspaper. This was the case of News Corp v HMRC, in which the media giant […]

It’s been reported that some prosecutions under the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016 have collapsed recently, at Southwark and Taunton Crown Courts. The Taunton case at least was about the section 7 offence of […]

The government published its latest “future partnership paper” today on “Enforcement and dispute resolution”, and most of the attention it’s gathered—and the government’s spin—has been about its “dispute resolution” aspect. In other words, […]

Some reactions to the High Court’s judgment in the article 50 case, R (Miller) v Brexit Secretary, have been ugly, excessive and ridiculous. It’s excessive too to see the judgment as blocking Brexit, or as creating […]

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 […]

Since 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.

As 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 […]

Could a desperate Greece go to court over its financial dispute with Europe? The crisis is more about politics and finance than it […]

The US Supreme Court’s opinion in Obergefell v Hodges – it may come out today, or next week – will […]