18 Jun 2017 | Brexit and Judicial Power, Posts, Publications: Brexit and Judicial Power
Download pdf The tremors caused by the general election are still working their way through the political system. The implications for the nature of the UK’s future relationship with the EU have been the subject of much speculation. Before too long, however, the...
27 Apr 2017 | Publications, Publications: Brexit and Judicial Power
Download paper Submission to the Joint Committee on Human Rights 7 April 2017 Dr Jonathan Morgan, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Cambridge Professor Richard Ekins, Associate Professor, University of Oxford Professor Guglielmo Verdirame, Professor of...
4 Jan 2017 | Brexit and Judicial Power, Posts, Publications, Publications: Brexit and Judicial Power
Download paper The legal controversy in the Miller case may now be distilled in the following way. The government argues that it has a general power to withdraw from treaties, which it certainly does. The claimants argue that the executive does not have a power to...
2 Dec 2016 | Posts, Publications, Publications: Brexit and Judicial Power, Publications: Critiquing Judicial Power
Following on from his three Judicial Power Project papers on Miller, Professor John Finnis delivered the Sir Thomas More Lecture at Lincoln’s Inn on ‘Brexit and the Balance of Our Constitution’, on 1 December 2016. The lecture provided powerful...
1 Dec 2016 | Brexit and Judicial Power, Posts, Publications, Publications: Brexit and Judicial Power
The Government’s argument in the Miller case is that triggering Article 50 lies within the power of the Crown to make and unmake international treaties – a power the leading litigant, Gina Miller, has termed ‘this ancient, secretive Royal...
2 Nov 2016 | Brexit and Judicial Power, Publications, Publications: Brexit and Judicial Power
This post is excerpted from a second short paper published today, available here: Download paper In a Judicial Power Project paper of 26 October, Terminating Treaty-based UK Rights, I argued that UK law and constitutional practice about double tax treaties provides a...
26 Oct 2016 | Brexit and Judicial Power, Publications, Publications: Brexit and Judicial Power
This post is excerpted from a short paper published today, available here: Download paper Oral argument in the Brexit Case in the Administrative Court last week left an easy case looking a bit difficult. It allowed Lord Pannick QC, for the lead claimant, to reiterate...
20 Oct 2016 | Publications, Publications: Brexit and Judicial Power
Download pdf Submission to the Joint Committee on Human Rights 10 October 2016 Gunnar Beck, 1 Essex Court, former advisor to the European Scrutiny Committee of the House of Commons Dominic Burbidge, Research Fellow, Judicial Power Project Richard Ekins, Associate...
21 Jul 2016 | Posts, Publications, Publications: Brexit and Judicial Power
Professor Richard Ekins publishes a new Judical Power Project report on Brexit’s wide implications for the future of judicial power in our constitution. Read the report
