The case of Attorney-General v Jonathan Cape Ltd [1976] QB 752 is one of a select few that become better known by a commonplace description
Category: Public law
Towards a Written Constitution?
Examination candidates are quite frequently invited to consider whether the United Kingdom needs, or would benefit from, a written constitution. The apparent simplicity of the
A Tinkering on the Red Benches
The House of Lords Reform Act 2014, which received the royal assent in May, might appear by its short title to signal a constitutional reform
Voting for Prisoners?
In the long-running skirmish over the issue of prisoner voting, a development in December (2013) has received rather less notice than it deserves, perhaps because
The Government Versus Judicial Review
Judicial review has been something of a growth industry, but this seems to be one industry that the Government does not want to encourage. The
The Scottish Question and the English Question
Students of Public Law should have noticed that the subject of devolution, which for some years has been non-examinable, has bounced back into the syllabus