Wk 2 - Sources of the UK Constitution

Question 1

What are the sources of the UK Cosntitution

Answer 1

• judge-made law
• constitutional conventions
• international law
• legislation (Acts of Parliament)

Question 2

How to determine between a constitutional statute and ordinary statute

Answer 2

Does it concern constitutional matters?

Question 3

Constitutional matters?

Answer 3

• allocation of powers to institutions of government (e.g. Scotland Act 1998, Constitutional Reform Act 2005)
• regulates relationship between state and individuals (Magna Cart 1215, Bill of Rights 1689, Human Rights Act 1998)

Question 4

Thoburn v Sunderland City Council

Answer 4

• LJ Laws suggested hierarchy of constitutional statutes and ordinary statutes and that constitutional can only be repealed by expressed repeal (another Act of Parliament via the ordinary legislative process) not implied repeal