header-logo header-logo

02 July 2020
Issue: 7893 / Categories: Legal News , Constitutional law
printer mail-detail

NLJ this week: Constitutional thoughts & yo-yo cases

Judges are ‘making decisions that should be made by a democratically elected parliament or government’, barrister and author Dr Michael Arnheim argues in this week’s NLJ

Dr Arnheim uses two Supreme Court decisions and a Court of Appeal decision to explore his thesis. He claims that all three have in common ‘injustice resulting from either the absence of principle or ignoring principle’.

The solution, according to Dr Arnheim, is for Parliament to ‘assert its power to guide the judges by means of legislation, on the basis of the sovereignty of Parliament, the bedrock principle of the UK constitution’.

Read the article here.

Issue: 7893 / Categories: Legal News , Constitutional law
printer mail-details
RELATED ARTICLES

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Gateley Legal—Jack Kelly

Gateley Legal—Jack Kelly

Gateley Legal expands Midlands residential development team

Gibson Dunn—Richard Surtees

Gibson Dunn—Richard Surtees

Gibson Dunn adds employee benefits and executive compensation practice in London with partner Richard Surtees

Laytons ETL—Alec Cameron

Laytons ETL—Alec Cameron

Laytons ETL appoints new partner and head of intellectual property disputes

NEWS
A series of recent decisions has clarified important principles across property law, from perpetuities to lease renewals and public rights over land
Employers cannot rely on wellbeing services alone to defend workplace stress claims after a High Court decision awarding almost £1m to an overworked employee
Andy Burnham's brand of 'Manchesterism' could offer fresh thinking on legal aid and access to justice if it reaches Westminster, according to Roger Smith, NLJ columnist and former director of JUSTICE
The constitutional fallout from a change of prime minister, rather than the politics, is under scrutiny as questions arise over the limits of executive authority in a leadership transition
The legal profession is undergoing a fundamental shift from selling services to creating technology-enabled products, according to Professor Luke Mason, Head of School of Law at Regent's University London
back-to-top-scroll