‘Three Labour MPs have each won £54,000 High Court defamation damages from UKIP MEP Jane Collins over remarks she made about Rotherham’s child abuse scandal.’
BBC News, 6th February 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The 300-year-old custom of clerks wearing wigs in the Commons has been scrapped to save money and make the Commons “less stuffy”.’
Daily Telegraph, 6th February 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Some of the accumulated noxious legal dust will now settle with the enacting of the grossly mistitled EU (Notification of Withdrawal) Act 2017. We may have witnessed our first post-legal legal event. Populist law. If many people say a legally incorrect thing many times, it may come to be treated as if it were correct. Alternative law.’
UK Constitutional Law Association, 2nd February 2017
Source: www.ukconstitutionallaw.org
‘Two senior judges have blocked a legal challenge to the government’s strategy for leaving the single market and the European Economic Area.’
The Guardian, 3rd February 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘When Sir Ivan Rogers stepped down in January as the UK’s top official in Brussels, he urged his colleagues to “continue to challenge ill-founded arguments and muddled thinking” and not to be afraid “to speak the truth to those in power.” The implication was clear. The government’s Brexit preparations displayed all these failings but the politicians responsible did not like having this pointed out.’
OUP Blog, 3rd February 2017
Source: www.blog.oup.com
‘The government’s Brexit strategy faces a fresh legal challenge in the high court on Friday when campaigners argue that parliament must separately legislate to remove the UK from the European Economic Area (EEA) and the single market.’
The Guardian, 3rd February 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The government’s Brexit strategy will come under scrutiny when an official policy document setting out its plans is published later.’
BBC News, 2nd February 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Following one of the most constitutionally significant legal challenges in a generation, the Supreme Court today handed down its judgment in the Article 50 Brexit appeal. By a majority of eight to three, the Justices held that the UK could not trigger Article 50 without an Act of Parliament. The Court also ruled that the UK Government was not compelled to consult the devolved institutions or obtain their approval to withdraw.’
Blackstone Chambers, 24th January 2017
Source: www.blackstonechambers.com
‘Politics and the law were kept well apart in the Supreme Court’s adroit and erudite judgment in Miller.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 26th January 2017
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘In the new age of alternative facts, even Sean Spicer might struggle to spin Tuesday’s Supreme Court judgment as anything other than a comprehensive defeat for the government.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 26th January 2017
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘An overwhelming majority of women MPs have received online and verbal abuse from the public and a third have considered quitting as a result, a BBC Radio 5 live survey suggests.’
BBC News, 24th January 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘An overriding principle of British law is that parliament is sovereign – and we should be grateful to the judges, in the face of huge pressure, for upholding it.’
The Guardian, 24th January 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘After the Government lost its historic legal battle over Brexit, the Supreme Court published the full 43,000-word judgment online.’
Daily Telegraph, 24th January 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The Supreme Court has ruled against Theresa May’s Brexit plans and decreed that MPs are entitled to vote on whether to trigger Article 50.’
The Independent, 24th January 2017
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The Supreme Court in London will give its ruling on Article 50 on Tuesday, following a four-day hearing last December.’
Daily Telegraph, 23rd January 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The supreme court is due to deliver its eagerly awaited Brexit judgment declaring whether ministers or parliament have legal authority to approve the UK’s departure from the European Union.’
The Guardian, 24th January 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Unlike many legal subjects, constitutional law involves an awareness of history. Conversely, a student of British Constitutional History benefits from an understanding of legal concepts. (Though, as a history undergraduate who in 1969 was taught the subject by Jenifer Hart, the wife of HLA Hart, any mention of the “rule of recognition” would have been lost on me.) As we await the decision of the Supreme Court, it is germane to consider the story of the UK’s accession to the EEC and other Communities in 1971-1973. The debates in the House of Commons in 1971-72 provide one with a good understanding of the legal and constitutional issue which were at play; as well, of course of the international, political and economic issues which engaged the attention of Ministers and backbenchers.’
UK Constitutional Law Association, 19th January 2017
Source: www.ukconstitutionallaw.org
‘Parliament could harness the power of technology to provide a system to lawmakers that gives them the ability to test speculatively the knock-on effects of legislative changes while they are considering bills, according to IT guru Professor Richard Susskind.’
Legal Futures, 16th January 2017
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Unpaid internships should be banned as a barrier to social mobility, says a report from MPs and peers.’
BBC News, 17th January 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘MPs have launched an inquiry into the planned renovation of the Palace of Westminster amid concerns it may not provide value for money.’
BBC News, 15th January 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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