UKSC cases

Question 1

2012 Attorney General v National Assembly for Wales

Answer 1

Under the 2006 Government of Wales Act the Welsh Assembly could pass laws removing/modifying powers of UK ministers in approving Welsh law

Question 2

2016 Johnson v Secretary of State for the Home Department

Answer 2

A person with unmarried parents, one of whom was British, could not be deported

Question 3

2018 Steinfeld and Keiden v Secretary of State for International Development

Answer 3

The Civil Partnerships Act was discriminatory towards heterosexual couples

Question 4

2010 F and Thompson v Secretary of State for the Home Department

Answer 4

Sexual Offenses Act ruled incompatible with the HRA because it forced sex offenders to register as such for life

Question 5

2009 RB v Secretary of State for the Home Department

Answer 5

Abu Qatada could be deported, even though evidence obtained against him was found using torture. Later overturned by European Court of Human Rights

Question 6

2018 Owens v Owens

Answer 6

Mrs Owens could not divorce Mr Owens without his consent unless they had lived apart for 5 years

Question 7

2016 R v Lord Chancellor

Answer 7

The Lord Chancellor acted ultra vires by using secondary legislation to amend the Legal Aid Act

Question 8

2017 Miller v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union

Answer 8

The government could not trigger Article 50 using the royal prerogative

Question 9

2013 Reilly v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Answer 9

The government acted ultra vires by forcing Reilly unpaid to receive the Jobseekers Allowance; government enacted the Jobseekers Act to make their actions retrospectively lawful

Question 10

2013 ClientEarth v Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Answer 10

The UK government had failed its obligations established by the Air Quality Directive