Burmah Oil Company v Lord Advocate [1965] AC 75, House of Lords

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Webb
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Case Note ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Parliamentary Sovereignty ◽  
House Of Lords ◽  
Oil Company

Essential Cases: Public Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in Burmah Oil Company v Lord Advocate [1965] AC 75, House of Lords. This case, read together with the War Damage Act 1965, outlines the capacity of Parliament to enact retroactive legislation. The case note discusses this in the context of the rule of law and parliamentary sovereignty. The document also includes supporting commentary from author Thomas Webb.

Burmah Oil Company v Lord Advocate [1965] AC 75, House of Lords

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Webb
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Case Note ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Parliamentary Sovereignty ◽  
House Of Lords ◽  
Oil Company

Essential Cases: Public Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in Burmah Oil Company v Lord Advocate [1965] AC 75, House of Lords. This case, read together with the War Damage Act 1965, outlines the capacity of Parliament to enact retroactive legislation. The case note discusses this in the context of the rule of law and parliamentary sovereignty. The document also includes supporting commentary from author Thomas Webb.

British Railways Board v Pickin [1974] AC 765, House of Lords

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Webb
Keyword(s):  
Public Law ◽  
Case Note ◽  
Alternative Conceptions ◽  
Parliamentary Sovereignty ◽  
House Of Lords

Essential Cases: Public Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in British Railways Board v Pickin [1974] AC 765, House of Lords. The case concerned the unwillingness of the courts to look behind the process by which statutes were enacted by Parliament. The case note explores the wider implications of this position in the context of debate between orthodox and alternative conceptions of parliamentary sovereignty, and the notion of constitutional statutes. The document also includes supporting commentary from author Thomas Webb.

M v Home Office [1994] 1 AC 377, House of Lords (also known as Re M)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Webb
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Home Office ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
House Of Lords ◽  
Court Orders

Essential Cases: Public Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in M v Home Office [1994] 1 AC 377, House of Lords (also known as Re M). The case considered whether the courts had the power to issue injunctions against government departments and the ministers attached to them, and whether the rule of law required that those departments and ministers could be held in contempt of court for breach of court orders. The document also includes supporting commentary from author Thomas Webb.

M v Home Office [1994] 1 AC 377, House of Lords (also known as Re M)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Webb
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Home Office ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
House Of Lords ◽  
Court Orders

Essential Cases: Public Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in M v Home Office [1994] 1 AC 377, House of Lords (also known as Re M). The case considered whether the courts had the power to issue injunctions against government departments and the ministers attached to them, and whether the rule of law required that those departments and ministers could be held in contempt of court for breach of court orders. The document also includes supporting commentary from author Thomas Webb.

M v Home Office [1994] 1 AC 377, House of Lords (also known as Re M)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Webb
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Home Office ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
House Of Lords ◽  
Court Orders

Essential Cases: Public Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in M v Home Office [1994] 1 AC 377, House of Lords (also known as Re M). The case considered whether the courts had the power to issue injunctions against government departments and the ministers attached to them, and whether the rule of law required that those departments and ministers could be held in contempt of court for breach of court orders. The document also includes supporting commentary from author Thomas Webb.

British Railways Board v Pickin [1974] AC 765, House of Lords

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Webb
Keyword(s):  
Public Law ◽  
Case Note ◽  
Alternative Conceptions ◽  
Parliamentary Sovereignty ◽  
House Of Lords

Essential Cases: Public Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in British Railways Board v Pickin [1974] AC 765, House of Lords. The case concerned the unwillingness of the courts to look behind the process by which statutes were enacted by Parliament. The case note explores the wider implications of this position in the context of debate between orthodox and alternative conceptions of parliamentary sovereignty, and the notion of constitutional statutes. The document also includes supporting commentary from author Thomas Webb.

scholarly journals Ensuring Guarantees of the Rights of the Individual and the Inalienability of his Legal Status in the System of Legal Regulation

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 21-29
Author(s):  
Alexander Vladimirovich Konovalov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Synergistic Action ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The Core ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Different Levels

The article is devoted to the analysis of the general principle of law — ensuring guarantees of individual rights and the inalienability of his legal status. According to the author, they are provided by the synergistic action of private and public law regulation. The article convincingly shows that private and public law is a single system of values with different levels of generalization of terms and different methodology. At the same time, it is the private legal mechanisms that are the basis, the core of the rule of law.

Porter v Magill [2001] UKHL 67, House of Lords

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Webb
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Case Note ◽  
House Of Lords

Essential Cases: Public Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in Porter v Magill [2001] UKHL 67, House of Lords. This case note considers the introduction of a revised test for bias in public law decision-making. The document also includes supporting commentary from author Thomas Webb.

R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Simms [1999] UKHL 33, in the House of Lords

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Webb
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Public Law ◽  
European Convention ◽  
Secretary Of State ◽  
Parliamentary Sovereignty ◽  
House Of Lords ◽  
Human Rights Act ◽  
Human Rights Act 1998 ◽  
Home Department ◽  
The Relationship

Essential Cases: Public Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Simms [1999] UKHL 33, House of Lords. The case considered whether the Secretary of State, and prison governors, could restrict prisoners’ access to journalists investigating alleged miscarriages of justice. In addition to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) Article 10 issues this raises, Lord Hoffmann also in obiter dicta discussed the relationship between the Human Rights Act 1998, parliamentary sovereignty, and the concept of legality. The document also includes supporting commentary from author Thomas Webb.

R (on the application of Begum (By her litigation friend, Rahman)) v Headteacher, Governors of Denbigh High School [2006] UKHL 15, House of Lords

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Webb
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Case Note ◽  
House Of Lords ◽  
Religious Dress

Essential Cases: Public Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in R (on the application of Begum (By her litigation friend, Rahman)) v Headteacher, Governors of Denbigh High School [2006] UKHL 15, House of Lords. This case concerned whether a school unlawfully limited a pupil’s right to manifest her religious beliefs through religious dress. The case note explores how a balance is struck between competing qualified rights, and so also contains discussion of the concept of proportionality. The document also includes supporting commentary from author Thomas Webb.

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