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Bernard Keenan and Ewan Smith: Proscription, Proportion, and Palestine Action – Part 1
Introduction The Supreme Court will hear the Home Secretary’s appeal in R (Ammori) v Secretary of State for the Home Department on 4 and 5 November 2026. The case concerns the Home Secretary’s June 2025 decision to proscribe Palestine Action under s.3 of the Terrorism Act 2000…
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Sam Guy & Joe Tomlinson: Rising Caseloads in Judicial Review – A Question of AI?
Across many parts of the administrative justice system, caseloads appear to be rising. Tribunals handling administrative appeals are currently experiencing record backlogs. Public sector ombudsmen are observing similar trends. This has renewed focus on a perennial question in…
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Announcement: International Conference, 11–13 November 2026: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Fürstenbergstr. 19, Freiburg, Germany (hybrid): Host: The Max Planck Center for Democracy, Security and Human Rights
While the proportionality principle has long stood as a hallmark of German legal scholarship and is a widely adopted framework for adjudicating conflicts between individual rights and collective interests, its first sub-test, legitimacy review (i.e., the requirement that state…
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Announcement: Lecture by Lord Justice Singh
The Faculty of Advocates’ Human Rights and Rule of Law Committee is delighted to be hosting an upcoming lecture by Lord Justice Singh, a member of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. The lecture will take place on Thursday 19 November 2026 at 5.30pm in Laigh Hall,…
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Gareth Evans: Revisiting Senedd reform: Post-implementation review of the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Act 2024
The Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Act 2024 (“the Act”) introduced major structural and electoral changes to Senedd Cymru (Welsh Parliament) which took effect for the election on 7 May 2026. These included an increase to the size of the Senedd from 60 to 96 members, and…
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Craig Wells: The Veneer of Contentment: Mustafa, Salford and the Gaps the Deprivation of Liberty Reference Left Behind
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 the Magna Carta through the writ of habeas corpus to Article 5: that a…
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Announcement: Public Law Current Survey Co-Editor
The General Editors and Editorial Committee of Public Law are seeking to appoint a Co-Editor of the journal’s “current survey” section (to work alongside Dr Sarah Nason (Bangor University)) and invite expressions of interest from those who may be interested in helping to support…
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Joanna Bell & Hayley J Hooper: Not in my (Constitutional) Backyard: How Not to Speed Up Planning Challenges
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 licences and whether goods could be measured in imperial, rather than metric, units.…
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Announcement: Postdoctoral positions in the Department of Public Law at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
The Department of Public Law at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany (Director: Prof. Dr. Ralf Poscher) is seeking to recruit several Postdocs (f/m/div) incl. possibility to earn post-doctoral lecturing qualification…
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Richard Martin: Scenes from the Garvaghy Road, 2026: Protest, Police and Public Law in Northern Ireland
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 challenges, the Orange Order was given permission for 35 of its members to complete the…
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Patrick Graham: Legality, Legitimacy, and Durability – The Limits of Constitutional Reform in Northern Ireland
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 proposed or are open to substantial changes in the teeth of unionist opposition. That…