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2011 Referendum in Wales

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Removed part 3 and such.5 of G of W Act 2006, replacing with part 4 and sch.7 - Acts of Assembly with full competence in 20 main areas and third stage from Better Governance for Wales

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What did Kavanagh say of the decision in Wilson?

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Either returned courts to usual function or increased their powers by retaining choice in choosing enacted or ‘unenacted legislation’

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What section of the CRA guarantees judicial independence through LC function?

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S.3

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What protocol of the ECHR allows EU to accede to the ECHR?

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Protocol 14

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What question did Barber think RoL asks?

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‘What does it mean to be governed by law rather than by men’

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Who said that the law needs to be clear to respect autonomy, and thus requires other parts such as substantive equality?

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TRS Allen

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“A Programme for Progress” Labour Peers

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HoL Reform - 450, remove hereditary, force retirement at 80 (see Hand), all working peers, 3/5, no Lords majority, HoL Appointments Commission in statute.

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2004 Northern England devo referendums

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Decisive rejection of political power to English Regional Assemblies

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“Better Governance for Wales” (2005)

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Separate legislature and executive in three stages - more positive by G, enhanced legislative powers and grant assembly greater legislative devo after referendum (see 2011 Referendum)

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Name two cases where RoL has affected the interpretation of statutes

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Pierson and Simms - injection of substantive in Simms, need to expressly infringe in Pierson

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TRS Allen on RoL

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law needs to be clear to respect autonomy, and thus requires other parts such as substantive equality

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What did Vernon Bogdanor say about the British Constitution

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The old was based on PS, the new is based on the idea of a constitutional state based on separation of powers

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In what case did the courts explicitly refuse to accept a common law duty to give reasons?

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Hasan

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What are two reasons why Elliot thinks the Torie HRA plans to be unlikely?

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Coalition, where neither Lib Dem nor Labour support withdrawal, and devolution matters

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What case seems to show the Lords advocating P in domestic law?

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Pham

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Who argued, with Hickman and Elliot, that WU should coexist with P?

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Sales

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Who highlighted the issue of EVEL with a majority SNP and labour government - minority in England unable to pass England-only legislation?

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Deborah Orr

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Van Duyn v Home Office ratio

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Fundamental freedoms have direct effect

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What case established the supremacy of EU law?

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Costa v ENEL

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How does Dworkin distinguish between the formal and substantive conception of RoL?

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‘Rule book conception’ and ‘rights conception’

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“Protecting Human Rights in the UK”

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Conservatives - repeal HRA, remove binding nature as ‘advisory only’ from ECHR, legislate BoR only applying to most serious cases, and if rejected by CoEU then withdraw completely.

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How does Drewry argue Dicey’s RoL does not match 20th century

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Prohibiting wide discretionary authority does not match with 20th century interventionist state

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Who said in Karas that it was ‘at best an unacceptable disregard’ of RoL and ‘at worst an unacceptable disdain?

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Munby J

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Who argued that stopping Scottish/Welsh MPs from voting/creating English P will break up the union?

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Peter Hain MP

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Who argued the UK would end up as a confederal state?

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Rafael Bear

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What did Lord Upjohn say in Padfield?

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No reasons given may lead the court to conclude that ‘he had no good reason at all’

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Why did the Sunningdale Agreement collapse?

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General strike and unionist opposition

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Richard Commission (2002)

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2004 Report proposed primary legislative powers on all matters not explicitly reserved

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HoL Reform Bill 2012

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240 elected, 60 appointed, 10 years. Abandoned in August 2012

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St David’s Day Process (2015)

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Recommendations from Silk Commission - Welsh devo moved closer to Scottish (reserved), but maintain asymmetry by keeping significant areas at Westminster where they are not for Scotland and NI

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What did Jowell say of RoL

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It is a form of institutional morality, acting as a constraint on the uninhibited exercise of government powers

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Who was sceptical about ‘personal prerogatives’ of the Queen given the conventions and procedures already established?

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Blackburn

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Who argued HRA s.10 gives too much power to G at the expense of P?

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Loveland

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Who believes in RoL as a principle of institutional morality, constrining uninhibited exercise of governmental power?

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Jowell

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What does Elliot suggest about interpreting legislation and pragmatism?

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In cases like Witham and Anisminic, the courts have preferred to interpret P intention as consistent with fundamentals, rather than refusing to apply the AoP

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Who argued the law needs to be clear to respect autonomy, so other equally important requirements (e.g. substantive equality) are needed in RoL?

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TRS Allen

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Who argued the EU would be ‘doomed’ and it would be the ‘end of peace on the continent’ if Tories leave EU?

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Alan Posener

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Who highlighted how the White Paper, “Better Governance for Wales” would still limit the legislative powers to the current powers the Assembly already has

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Alan Trend

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What was the first acknowledgment of manner and form entrenchment after Thoburn?

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H v Lord Advocate - no repeal of Scotland Act unless expressly as ‘fundamental constitutional nature’

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What does s.2(4) ECA allow?

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Allows EU law to prevail over domestic law

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Who argued RoL needs to minimally conform to autonoy, intrinsically including individual respect for persons?

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Dworkin

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“Legislative devolution is federalism without the courage of its convictions”

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Sir David Williams

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Macarthys Ltd v Smith

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Equal pay

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What did Craig argue about ECJ supremacy?

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Communautaire approach through Costa v ENEL

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Lord Falconer on devo

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English P would ‘dwarf all other institutions’

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Who expressed concern that courts may see EU law as ‘autonomously entrenched’ rather than taking effect through AoPs?

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JDB Mitchell

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Who looked into the possibility of entrenching a British BoR?

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Joint Committee on Human Rights

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Karas

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Next day deportation

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Who termed our electoral system ‘absurd’ and called for reform?

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Owen Jones

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Kavanagh

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Pepper v Hart amounts to enforcing ‘unenacted intentions’, undermining rationale and integrity of the legislative process

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Name at least two times when RoL has prohibited the action of officials

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Karas, Entick v Carrington, Cornerhouse, Ex p Bennett, Golder v UK

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Who sarcastically referred to Blair as ‘President Blair’?

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Timothy Ash in the Guardian

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HoLCC on arms length bodies

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Threefold classification - non-ministerial, executive and non-departmental

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Who said that no reasons given may lead the court to conclude that ‘he had no good reason at all’

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Lord Upjohn in Padfield

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Who believed Dicey’s RoL was substantive?

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TRS Allen - used it to base his own conception

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Government response to HoLCC 2010-12

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Unnecessary and not qualitatively different, impossible to define

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Who treated Wade’s political fact of rule of recognition with ‘respectful reserve’?

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TRS Allen

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Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985)

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G and Irish G agreed to cooperate on justice and political progress

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Who argued Dworkin’s RoL makes it ‘nothing more or less than a synonym for a rights based theory of law and adjudication’

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Craig

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What does Elliot note is the main risk arising out of Pham?

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WU operated as an important safeguard against judicial overreach

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Who argued for a ‘hierarchy of constitutional norms’ after HS2?

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M Elliot

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What is the communautaire approach through Costa v ENEL?

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Contractarian, functional, egalitarian and analytical reasons for accepting ECJ supremacy

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What was said at para 61 in Osborn?

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The courts should continue to develop CL in areas falling within the ECHR

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HoLCC on Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill 2006

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‘Further safeguards’

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Treasury and Civil Service Committee

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‘Those who are to make decisions should be publicly answerable for them’

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Who holds a ‘construction’ rather than ‘revolution’ view of Factortame?

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Wade

50
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Downing Street Declaration (1993)

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Recognised legitimacy of nationalist tradition in NI

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What did Dominic Grieve argue about the HRA and the ‘living instrument’?

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He highlights how statutes are ‘always speaking’

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Who levelled criticism against the Torie government for their view of the ECHR as a ‘living instrument’ in a negative light?

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Dominic Grieve

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Who described Scotland as the ‘catalyst for change’, criticising the ‘two main parties’ apathy to the fact that ruling by consent in Scotland is becoming more and more untenable?

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Deborah Orr

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What parts does Raz add to Dicey’s conception of RoL?

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Natural justice, independent judiciary, no discretion by private agencies to divert the law, stable and courts have review powers

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McKay Commission

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Suggested EVEL, only allowing English laws to pass with a majority

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What journalist for the Guardian argued a federal state is an inevitable outcome for the UK?

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Alan Posener

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What did John Curtis say of the West Lothian question?

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A ‘form of English nationalism… beginning to emerge’

62
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10th Report of the HoC EU Scrutiny Commission

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Dual acceptance of treaties needed in UK. No higher legal order than P - EU given by virtue of s.2 and s.3 ECA DOMESTIC legislation.

63
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What remains undefined in the CRA and down to interpretation?

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Judicial independence

64
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What principle was given to the courts through HRA?

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Principle of construction

65
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What did Munby J say in Karas?

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‘at best an unacceptable disregard’ of RoL and ‘at worst an unacceptable disdain

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What voting system did the Green Party propose?

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Proportional representation to allow greens to have a voice

67
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Who highlighted Dicey’s fundamental principles were contradictory?

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Jan-Erik Lane

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Lord Toulson in Kennedy v Charity Commission

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‘it was not the purpose of the HRA that the CL should become an ossuary’

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Sunning dale Agreement (1973)

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Attempt to form power-sharing NI Exec and cross-border Council of Ireland.

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What did Marina Hyde suggest about Tory planners?

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They were looking into the constitutional possibilities of Cameron just staying on in Number 10, arguing no one else won either

72
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What kid of legislation gives legislativ powers to the executive, against SP?

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Delegated legislation

73
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Who satirised the British constitution because of reliance on a letter written to the Times in 1950, supposedly from the private minister of George VI?

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Marina Hyde, The Guardian

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What judge in particular in 2014 and 2015 has advocated open justice and common law first?

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Lord Reed (Osborne, Para 61)

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Liversidge v Anderson

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Lord Atkin argued the application of laws does not change depending on the social context (i.e. no different in war time - but Wednesbury?)

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1998 Referendum in eNGLAND

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Directly elected administrative body for Greater London - 3/4 of the vote allowed it to pass, but only 1/3 of population voted

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Who saw HS2 as a ‘vision of the British constitution substantially at odds with Diceyan orthodoxy’

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Elliott

80
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How were the normative and legality principles by Craig taken even further than Simms in HS2?

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Not only common law rights, but constitutional statutes apply - need express words to overrule them

81
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Campaign for the North

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Regional govt for North of England with tax-raising powers and responsibility for policy areas

82
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What party in particular, speaking to Brand, argued for a people’s constitutional convention?

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Green Party

83
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Van Duyn v Home Office

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Scientologist

84
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What Torie suggested that, despite the only vague reference to a BoR in the Torie manifesto, the ECHR withdrawal is still a real possibility?

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Lord Faulks

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Who argued that the courts in Factortame were merely determining what existing constitutional order required, rather than affirming a kind of rule of recognition

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TRS Allen

87
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What did Alan Posener argue about pulling out of the EU?

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It would be ‘the end of peace on the continent’ and the EU would be ‘doomed’

88
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Jowell on RoL

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RoL as a principle of institutional morality, constraining uninhibited exercise of governmental power

89
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Who said in Kennedy v Charity Commission that ‘it was not the purpose of the HRA that the CL should become an ossuary’?

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Lord Toulson

90
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Why did Sales advocate a bifurcated view of public law?

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proportionality may not be universally applicable, and ultra vires governs JR so can only go past this if statute confirms it - therefore, too radical to suggest P intended JR through proportionality outwith the HRA

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Who said that an English P would ‘dwarf all other institutions’?

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Lord Falconer

94
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Who argued ‘judges do and must make law in the gaps left by P’?

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Lord Steyn in Brown

95
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What were the two major issues Lord Faulks highlighted the Tories had with HRA

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S.2 and Art.46

97
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“The Implications of Devolution for England” Chapter 4

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Conservative’s hybrid approach to EVEL: committee stage and veto

98
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What case qualified the decision in Pepper v Hart?

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Wilson

100
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HoLCC 2010-12

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Formal procedures for constitutional reform; constitutional impact, consultation, g&w papers and pre/post scrutiny

101
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PASC 2013, “Truth to Power: How CS Reform can Succeed”

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Conflict with N-T through CSRP and s.10(2) CRAG. Haldane doctrine vital to hold executive to account and at core of relationship - but still appropriate? Joint committee of both on CS

102
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What case showed the courts refusing to convict because fair trial fundamental to RoL?

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ex p Bennett

103
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Name at least two times when RoL has affected the interpretation of statutes

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Simms, Pierson, CRA 2005, Liverside v Anderson

104
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Sir David Williams

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“Legislative devolution is federalism without the courage of its convictions”

105
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What did Alan Trend welcome in particular about the White Paper, “Better Governance for Britain”

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The separate legislature and executive it proposed

106
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Who called for abolishment of the HoL instead of the Life Peerages Act

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Hugh Gaitskell

107
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Who said in Factortame that it was ‘local recognition’ of the constitutional state of things, suggesting support for TRS Allen?

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Lord Bridge

109
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“Your Right to Know’ White Paper

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Preceded FOIA - ‘benchmark yet to be obtained’ (Lord McNally)

110
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What is the normative principle set down by Craig?

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Continuing PS - can repeal any statute

111
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“Scotland in the UK: An Enduring Settlement”

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Clause 1 - Scottish P on a permanent basis. Clause 2 - Sewel Conventions

112
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Who highlighted how the Ministerial Code clearly states it is the duty of ministers and CS to respect international obligations?

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Dominic Grieve

113
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What is Wade’s view of Factortame?

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Construction view - ‘catalyst for a partial change in the rule of recognition’, adapting political fact of PS to new situation

115
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Who said ‘the HoL has no place in a democratic society’

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Nicola Sturgeon in a speech in Glasgow

117
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Which Scottish figure stated that ‘federalism is the outcome of all of this’?

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Secretary of State for Scotland, Alistair Carmichael

118
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What quote of Irvine appears to suggest he rejects any injection of substantive RoL?

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courts should not make decisions ‘on the basis of their view of the importance of the UK’s standing as a good global citizen’

119
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Dworkin on RoL

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RoL needs to minimally conform to autonomy, intrinsically including individual respect for persons

120
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In what case did Denning stretch the meaning of a statute to make it compatible with EU law?

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Macarthys v Smith

121
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Name four people/bodies who included autonomy/human rights in their RoL

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Bingham, Dworkin, Venice Commission and TRS Allen

122
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What does s.3 of the ECA allow?

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Disapplication of a law in conflict with EU law

123
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Lord Faulks on Art.46

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‘subcontracted’ human-rights, rather than having ‘brought rights home’

124
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Who criticised the courts on the Ullah principle?

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Lord Irvine at the UCL Judicial Institute

126
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In what newspaper did they argue Miliband may be showing an outright opposition to the principle of coalition?

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Guardian

127
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St Andrew’s Day Agreement (2006)

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First Assembly since Belfast Agreement (1998) to complete full term

128
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JDB Mitchell on ECA

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expressed concern that courts may see EU law as ‘autonomously entrenched’ rather than taking effect through AoPs

129
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Who believed Dicey’s RoL theory was formal?

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Craig

130
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What two academics agree that notions of devolution and federalism are not wholly distinct but rest on a continuum?

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Saunders and Elliot

132
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Kilbrandon Commission

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Rejected federalism but split on devolution

133
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Who argued Diceys exclusion of wide discretionary authority in govt fails to acknowledge 20th century reality?

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Drewry

134
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Civil Service Reform Plan 2012 issues

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CS Commission resisted substituting ministerial choice for PM power to veto, but political pressure caused them to cede ground

135
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Who suggested EU position is by reference to ECA (and EUA), and ‘other features of the domestic constitutional landscape’ with which it might conflict

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Elliott

136
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HoC PASC

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Need for convention to discuss unfinished business of devolution and possibly wider reform

136
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MP Peter Hain

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Stopping Scottish/Welsh MPs from voting/creating English P will break up the union

137
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What do saunders and elliot argue about federalism?

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notions of devolution and federalism are not wholly distinct but rest on a continuum

138
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Why is the principle of construction given by HRA difficult?

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de facto insertion of additional clauses is hard to reconcile with traditional SP

139
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Who argued Pepper v Hart amounts to enforcing ‘unenacted intentions’, undermining rationale and integrity of the legislative process?

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Kavanagh

140
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Coalition Agreement for Stability and Reform

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‘No constitutional difference… but practices need to reflect’ first peacetime coalition since 1930s

141
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What four parts are there to Dicey’s conception of the RoL?

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(1) No man above the law, (2) regular application of the law, (3) rights are those people actually have and (4) sufficiently clear, prospective and accessible

142
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What did Craig note about Dworkin’s RoL?

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‘nothing more or less than a synonym for a rights based theory of law and adjudication’

143
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HoLCC 2012 on CS

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CS are ‘fully accountable to ministers , and ministers are fully accountable to P’, but new factors (ombudsmen, Select Committees) and new questions of personal accountability - SCs can express criticism over particular CS and recommend disciplinary procedures

144
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Who argued that if the UK became a federal state, Carlisle would be the natural centre point because Westminster suffers from weak leadership?

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Tom Devine

145
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In what case did Lord Atkin argue the application of laws does not change depending on the social context

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Liversidge v Anderson

147
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What academic highlights how PS is only an ENGLISH theory?

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Elliot

148
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What did Lord Reed argue in Pham?

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Uses interpretative methdology to suggest courts interpret legislation interfering with important rights as requiring no more than objectively necessary, using Leech and Daly to show this

149
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What does Elliot think the Torie government have got wrong in their view on BoR?

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That there is a blank canvas behind the HRA - but Osborn shows there is not

150
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Who was the separation of powers first developed by?

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Aristotle and John Locke

151
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The Wakeham Report 2000

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HoL Reform - 550, majority appointed (Cash for Peerages), remove Weatherhill

152
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What is the legality principle set down by Craig?

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Statutory interpretation tool requiring express words for infringing CL rights

153
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Who argued RoL intrinsically include indvidual respect and concern for persons?

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Dworkin

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What two ways does Tomkins highlight s.18 of the EUA is limited?

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Only attacks EU law, but most controversial from ECJ rulings, and pays no attention to other challenges (human rights/common law)

155
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Who highlighted two ways s.18 EUA is limited?

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Tomkins

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