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Recent Blogs
Nick Barber: Constitutional hardball and justified development of the law
Related Content Did the Supreme Court get Millerright? The case was certainly one in which the judges developed, as opposed to merely applied, the law. Even the very best lawyer could not have known for sure whether the judges would conclude that the abuse of the...
Jane Smith: The demise of non-justiciability
Related Content North and south of the Border, the courts at first instance dismissed the Miller/Cherry claims in short order as non-justiciable. Miller proceeded directly to the Supreme Court by virtue of the “leapfrog” procedure. Cherry, however, was appealed to the...
Anne Twomey: Article 9, parliamentary proceedings and the consequences of Miller (No 2)
Related Content InMiller (No 2),the Supreme Court held that article 9 is intended to protect freedom of speech and debate in the Houses and their committees and the right of the Houses to manage their own affairs without external interference. While prorogation may...
Alison Young: Deftly guarding the constitution
Related Content The Supreme Court’s decision in Miller v Prime Minister and Cherry v The Advocate General is to be welcomed. It demonstrates a delicate balance between law and politics, affirming the Supreme Court’s role as the guardian of the UK’s constitution.The...
Debating the Supreme Court’s prorogation judgment
Related Content The Supreme Court’s judgment in Miller/Cherry[2019] UKSC 41, holding that Parliament was not prorogued on 10 September, is by any measure a momentous judgment. Policy Exchange’s Judicial Power Project commented on the litigation before this judgment...
Electric cars: a question for the next PM
Could batteries for electric cars be a successful intervention in industry?
Commentary on Lord Sumption’s Reith Lectures
Former Supreme Court Justice Lord Sumption gave the 2019 Reith Lectures, covering the relationship between the law and politics. Richard Ekins, Head of the Judicial Power Project and co-author of Lord Sumption and the Limits of the Law, responds with this series of commentaries on the lectures.
Britain’s vital strategic interests in space
Space professionals in the UK have been let down by governments who fail to grasp the importance of space. This has to change.
Britain must scale up its space ambition
It’s time to recognise space power as a critical component of the UK’s grand strategy in the 21st century.
Constitutional government, parliamentary democracy and judicial power
Richard Ekins revisits the nature of constitutional government in a parliamentary democracy, answering some related criticisms of the Judicial Power Project.
