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UK Constitutional Law Association

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Craig Wells: The Veneer of Contentment: Mustafa, Salford and the Gaps the Deprivation of Liberty Reference Left Behind ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026…

Craig Wells: The Veneer of Contentment: Mustafa, Salford and the Gaps the Deprivation of Liberty...

In June I argued on this blog that the Supreme Court’s decision in A Reference by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland [2026] UKSC 16 broke faith with a discipline that runs from chapter 29 of…

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Joanna Bell & Hayley J Hooper: Not in my (Constitutional) Backyard: How Not to Speed Up Planning Challenges ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026…

Joanna Bell & Hayley J Hooper: Not in my (Constitutional) Backyard: How Not to Speed Up Planning...

Important issues of UK constitutional law can arise in the most unusual of places. Some of the most important cases on undergraduate reading lists, for example, concerned disputes about fishing lic…

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Richard Martin: Scenes from the Garvaghy Road, 2026: Protest, Police and Public Law in Northern Ireland ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026…

Richard Martin: Scenes from the Garvaghy Road, 2026: Protest, Police and Public Law in Northern...

Northern Ireland’s so-called marching season is usually petering out by now. This year looks to be different. On Sunday 27 September, after a 28-year wait and a flurry of last-minute legal challeng…

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Patrick Graham: Legality, Legitimacy, and Durability – The Limits of Constitutional Reform in Northern Ireland ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026…

Patrick Graham: Legality, Legitimacy, and Durability – The Limits of Constitutional Reform in...

There is some unreality to the current clamour for reform of Northern Ireland’s devolved government. The three major non-unionist parties, as well as the British and Irish governments, have propose…

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Francesca Jackson: Jamaica’s petition to King Charles on slavery reparations under s.4 Judicial Committee Act 1833: A constitutional analysis ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026…

Francesca Jackson: Jamaica’s petition to King Charles on slavery reparations under s.4 Judicial...

On Monday 7th September 2026, Jamaica filed a petition with King Charles asking him to refer three specific questions on transatlantic slavery to the Judicial Committee of the Privy …

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David Erdos: Vince v Associated Newspapers: Have UK Data Protection’s Journalism Provisions Come of Age? ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026…

David Erdos: Vince v Associated Newspapers: Have UK Data Protection’s Journalism Provisions Come of...

In Vince v Associated Newspapers [2026] EWCA Civ 899, the Court of Appeal held that an unfair processing compensation claim under data protection law provided redress against the seriously misleadi…

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Thomas Horsley: Legislative Design in the Shadow of the UK Internal Market Act: The Food Price Cap (Scotland) Bill ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026…

Thomas Horsley: Legislative Design in the Shadow of the UK Internal Market Act: The Food Price Cap...

The Scottish Government’s proposals to introduce statutory price caps on essential food items provide a new test of the practical effects of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 (UKIMA) on d…

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Julio Alberto Barajas-Servin: When Electoral Lies Become Justiciable ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026…

Julio Alberto Barajas-Servin: When Electoral Lies Become Justiciable

Wales has done something unusual – it has enacted a duty to prohibit electoral lies before deciding what the prohibition will look like. Since 27 June 2026, section 13 of the Government of Wales Ac…

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Announcement: UKCLA Blog Editorial Team ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026…

Announcement: UKCLA Blog Editorial Team

Professor Se-shauna Wheatle is stepping down as one of the editors of the UK Constitutional Law Association Blog. We would like to thank Se-shauna, on behalf of the wider public law community, for …

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Chris Rowe: Requalifying Article 8: The Immigration and Asylum Bill ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026…

Chris Rowe: Requalifying Article 8: The Immigration and Asylum Bill

The Immigration and Asylum Bill is the government’s third attempt to directly change how judges interpret and apply Article 8. Below I assess the likely impact of the proposed changes in the contex…

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Dane Luo: The Protection of “Purported Determinations” in the New Generation of Ouster Clauses ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026…

Dane Luo: The Protection of “Purported Determinations” in the New Generation of Ouster Clauses

Recently enacted clauses expressly include define a “determination” to include a “purported determination” or state that a court may not question a “determination or purported determination”. It is…

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Lewis Graham and Leah Trueblood: A right to information in domestic law: five points of interest for public lawyers ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026…

Lewis Graham and Leah Trueblood: A right to information in domestic law: five points of interest...

In a recent decision, the Upper Tribunal (‘the UT’) has found that the operation of section 44 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (‘FOIA’) breaches the right to access information under Article…

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Robert Craig: Uncomfortable, But Not Unconstitutional – The Transition to a New Prime Minister ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026…

Robert Craig: Uncomfortable, But Not Unconstitutional – The Transition to a New Prime Minister

Despite Keir Starmer’s landslide majority just two years ago, the former Prime Minister announced his resignation from the premiership on 20 July. The departure of yet another prime minister, in sh…

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Ben Yong: The Civil Service: A Public Good, Not the Enemy Within ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026…

Ben Yong: The Civil Service: A Public Good, Not the Enemy Within

Reform Party MP Danny Kruger is concerned. The UK, he says, has ‘a bloated, paralysed centre of government and a mutinous bureaucracy’; and that ‘Real power is held not by the elected government bu…

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Joanna Bell: The Immigration and Asylum Bill (Part 1): a proposal to rewire the relationship between asylum appeals and the Home Office ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026…

Joanna Bell: The Immigration and Asylum Bill (Part 1): a proposal to rewire the relationship...

The system which handles appeals against the Home Office’s asylum and immigration decisions looks set, once again, to be overhauled. If enacted, Part 1 of the Immigration and Asylum Bill woul…

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Crash Krylova – Trans people in prison: For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers [2026] CSOH 59 ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026…

Crash Krylova: Trans People in Prison: For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers [2026] CSOH 59

Introduction On 19 June 2026, the Outer House of the Court of Session handed down judgment in the case of For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers [2026] CSOH 59 (“For Women Scotland 3”). This piece…

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Bhavya Johari – The Political Constitution’s Broken Promise: Arms, Sanctions and Accountability after Al-Haq ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026…

Bhavya Johari – The Political Constitution’s Broken Promise: Arms, Sanctions and Accountability...

In September 2024, the Government suspended around thirty arms export licences to Israel, having found a clear risk that United Kingdom equipment might be used to commit serious violations of inter…

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Hleb Buziuk: Independent by Assertion: The Immigration and Asylum Bill and the Re-Departmentalisation of Adjudication ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026…

Hleb Buziuk: Independent by Assertion: The Immigration and Asylum Bill and the Re-Departmentalisa...

On 13 July 2026, the Immigration and Asylum Bill is scheduled to receive its second reading in the House of Commons. Public attention has fixed on Part 2 and its Article 8 clauses. This post is abo…

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Aaditya Bajpai: Not a Ministry of Truth: The State’s Positive Duty to Prevent Algorithmically Amplified Misinformation from Triggering Rights-Harming Violence ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026…

Aaditya Bajpai: Not a Ministry of Truth: The State’s Positive Duty to Prevent Algorithmically...

Introduction “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes”. This line is credited to Mark Twain, but the thought is older. Jonathan Swift complained three cent…

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Hleb Buziuk: Downward Self-Correction: The AGNI Reference and the Mirror Principle in Reverse ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026…

Hleb Buziuk: Downward Self-Correction: The AGNI Reference and the Mirror Principle in Reverse

The literature on section 2 of the Human Rights Act 1998 has largely been preoccupied with a single direction of travel: how far domestic courts may go beyond the Strasbourg case law, or against it…

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