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Lady Hale, ‘The Supreme Court: Guardian of the Constitution?’ (Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture, Kuala Lumpur, 9 November 2016, 2016) §
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The single best short statement of the intermediate position, by a judge who sat on the cases. Sets out the three ways the UKSC really is a guardian, then names the gaping hole: it cannot strike down an Act. And says she does not want that power.
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Lady Hale, ‘The UK Supreme Court in the United Kingdom Constitution’ (Inaugural lecture, Institute for Legal and Constitutional Research, University of St Andrews, 8 October 2015, 2015) §
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Fuller on review of devolved legislation and on HS2, where the Court asked whether one constitutional statute can impliedly repeal another. Connects straight back to Thoburn and week 3.
Also published as (2015) 6 UK Supreme Court Yearbook 32, DOI 10.19152/ukscy.616, free.
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Lady Hale, ‘Law and Politics — a Reply to Reith’ (2019) 24(3) Judicial Review §
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Her answer to Sumption's Reith Lectures. Read beside Sumption's 'Human rights and wrongs' chapter, already on this list, for the whole argument about judicial power from both sides.
Dame Frances Patterson Memorial Lecture 2019.
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Robert Hazell, ‘Judicial independence and accountability in the UK after the Constitutional Reform Act 2005’ (2015) Public Law 198 §
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Available in Westlaw; the link searches Library Search for the article.
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H. W. R. Wade, ‘Sovereignty — Revolution or Evolution?’ (1996) 112 Law Quarterly Review 568 §
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File with Allan as a pair: two short articles that disagree about what Factortame meant. Revolution, or courts reading statutes compatibly in the absence of express words?
Available in Westlaw; the link searches Library Search for the article.
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T. R. S. Allan, ‘Parliamentary Sovereignty: Law, Politics, and Revolution’ (1997) 113 Law Quarterly Review 443 §
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File with Wade as a pair: two short articles that disagree about what Factortame meant. Revolution, or courts reading statutes compatibly in the absence of express words?
Available in Westlaw; the link searches Library Search for the article.
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Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, ‘The Birth and First Steps of the UK Supreme Court’ (2011) 2 UK Supreme Court Yearbook 9–12 §
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Three pages by the Court's first President on why it was created. A very cheap and very good opening reading for the week.
Free PDF from the UK Supreme Court Yearbook.
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Lady Hale, ‘The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom — Lessons From Our First Ten Years’ (2019) 10 UK Supreme Court Yearbook 1–13 §
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Ten years on, the President looks back at what the Court has become. Read against Sir Stephen Laws for the opposite conclusion about the same court.
Free PDF from the UK Supreme Court Yearbook.
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Lord Sumption, ‘The Limits of Law’ (2014) 5 UK Supreme Court Yearbook 43–57 §
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Predates the Reith Lectures and states the same argument in fifteen pages. Pair it with Lady Hale's 'Law and Politics — a Reply to Reith' for both sides at a fraction of the reading.
Also via DOI: doi.org/10.19152/ukscy.277 · Free PDF from the UK Supreme Court Yearbook.
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Sir Patrick Elias, ‘Are Judges Becoming Too Political?’ (2014) 5 UK Supreme Court Yearbook 109–133 §
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The third voice beside Sumption and Hale: a Court of Appeal judge asking whether judges are becoming too political.
Also via DOI: doi.org/10.19152/ukscy.287 · Free PDF from the UK Supreme Court Yearbook.
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Sir Stephen Laws, ‘Parliamentary Sovereignty, Statutory Interpretation and the UK Supreme Court’ (2019) 10 UK Supreme Court Yearbook 160–206 §
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A former First Parliamentary Counsel, sceptical of the courts, on sovereignty and statutory interpretation. Read against Lady Hale's 'Lessons From Our First Ten Years': the same court, opposite conclusions.
Free PDF from the UK Supreme Court Yearbook.