Lord Reed of Allermuir to retire from the UK Supreme Court

This is the second in a three-part analysis of R (ALR and others) v Chancellor of the Exchequer [2025] EWHC 1467 (Admin). In this post, I will look at the core human rights challenges in the judgme…

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If the Secretary of State withdraws an order depriving a person of citizenship because they accept that the order has made the person stateless, does this mean that the original order is of no effect ...

Rationality review is a cornerstone of judicial review. Often referred to as a “backstop”, judicial review on grounds of rationality is probably the ground which public lawyers, when considering a …

The Background This note concerns the Upper Tribunal’s decision in AET v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2025] UKUT 16 (AAC) (14 January 2025). Back in 2020, in the case of R (Jackson) v …

The classic formulation of the non-fettering principle comes from the famous British Oxygen Co case. In the words of Lord Reid, there is a “general rule” that “anyone who has to exercise a statutor…

There’s a cheat code which operates at the start of human rights judgments which lets the audience know that a court is about to say something that the UK Government is not going to view favourably. I...

Introduction When the UK Parliament creates a legislature and endows it with plenary law-making powers, one of the most important questions to which the courts, practitioners and academics keep return...