Constitution

Experts have warned that despite the removal from office of badly behaved politicians, the democratic system of the UK remains subject to challenges and exploitation. The United Kingdom Constitution Monitoring Group (UKCMG) is composed of leading constitutional experts including former permanent sec

The UK needs a new constitutional arbiter due to the fragility of our constitutional conventions, Lord Sumption has said. Writing in The Times, the former Supreme Court justice says that if Prime Minister Boris Johnson "had been not just bad but mad" he could have wrecked the constitution by asking

The House of Lords Constitution Committee is inviting written contributions to its new inquiry into the role of the lord chancellor and law officers. The inquiry will focus on how these roles currently operate and how they have evolved since the Constitutional Reform Act 2005. In particular, it will

The Scottish courts were used to conduct politics in a 2018 case over the triggering of article 50, the Attorney General, Suella Braverman QC MP, has claimed. In a speech to the 2021 Public Law Project Conference in which she denounced 'political litigation', Ms Braverman said that the flexibility o

Michael Gove will be questioned by peers tomorrow as part of an inquiry into the future governance of the UK, exploring topics such as intergovernmental relations, promoting the Union across Government and funding arrangements. The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and minister for the Cabinet Of

The last thing the UK needs is a government whose ministers exercise “unbridled power”, a former Supreme Court justice has said. Speaking to The Guardian, Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore, who retired from the bench last month, criticised recent comments from the Home Secretary Priti Patel and Pr

Parliamentary sovereignty is "no longer an accurate description of the constitution in Scotland or the UK", the Scottish government said this morning as it launched a demand for legislation to be passed transferring the power to hold a referendum to Holyrood. In a paper entitled Scotland’

Professor Tobias Lock of Maynooth University Department of Law has been appointed constitutional advisor to a Scottish Parliament committee. The one-year appointment will see him support the work of the Parliament's Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Affairs Committee in all constitutional matter

Lord Reed has described some constitutional principles that have emerged from the case law on devolution. In a speech on devolution and the role of the courts delivered at Dover House in London, the Deputy President of the Supreme Court looked at the cases of Robinson v Secretary of State for Northe