The Supreme Court’s recent judgment in R (on the application of Imam) (Respondent) v London Borough of Croydon (Appellant) [2023] UKSC 45 (“Imam”) has far wider application beyond the immediate focus of that case on whether a local housing authority’s limited resources should affect the remedy to be granted by a court when the authority is in […]
When we think of the most important ouster clauses in the law of judicial review, we might think of the relevant parts of the Foreign Compensation Order considered in Anisminic, or section 67(8) the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, crucial to the decision in Privacy International. We might consider section 2 of the Judicial Review […]
Lecture by Dr Camila Vergara, Tuesday 5th December 2023, 4:30pm School of Law and Social Justice Events Space, University of Liverpool and online An inaugural lecture to mark the launch of the new Liverpool Public Law Unit will be given by Dr Camila Vergara on Tuesday 5th December 2023 on the topic of “Anti-Oligarchic Constitutionalism”. […]
*Editors’ note – this post is part of a series on ‘Contemporary Challenges for Constitutional Accountability’. The other posts in the series are available here.* Political accountability plays a key role in the operation of the rule of law. This is the main claim I seek to defend through this blog post. My framework here is that […]