Constitution in UK Law
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Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service
... ... In more recent times the best known definition of the prerogative is that given in Dicey, Law of the Constitution 8th ed. (1915), p.421 which is as follows: "The prerogative is the name for the remaining portion of the Crown's original authority, ... ...
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Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung v Rayner & Keeler Ltd and Others (Original Appeal) and Rayner & Keeler Ltd and Others v Courts and Others (Cross Appeal)
... ... 4 The constitution of the Stiftung was elaborately set out. First there was to be a Special Board for the administration of its estate and the supreme direction of its ... ...
- Ghaidan v Godin-Mendoza
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Anisminic Ltd v Foreign Compensation Commission
... ... The Foreign Compensation Act 1950 was passed in order to provide, immediately, for the constitution of the Commission and for the distribution by it of compensation under agreements entered into with Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. It also provided a ... ...
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R (Walumba Lumba and another) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
... ... As Lord Nicholls made clear in Ramanoop, discretionary vindicatory damages may be awarded for breach of the Constitution of Trinidad and Tobago in order to reflect the sense of public outrage, emphasise the importance of the constitutional right and the gravity of the ... ...
- Dorset Yacht Company Ltd v Home Office
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R (Alconbury Developments Ltd) v Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
... ... Court was right to hold that they compelled a conclusion fundamentally at odds with the distribution of powers under the British constitution, I would have considerable doubt as to whether they should be followed. But in my opinion the Divisional Court misunderstood the European ... ...
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Bank Mellat v HM Treasury (No 2)
... ... De Freitas was a Privy Council case concerned with fundamental rights under the constitution of Antigua and Barbuda, and the dictum drew on South African, Canadian and Zimbabwean authority. The three criteria have however an affinity to those ... ...
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Reynolds v Times Newspapers Ltd
... ... Reynolds had waived his immunity under the Irish constitution in respect of proceedings in the Dáil. His ability to do so was not questioned in your Lordships' House ... 4 The action was ... ...
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R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Simms
... ... I add only a few words of my own about the importance of the principle of legality in a constitution which, like ours, acknowledges the sovereignty of Parliament ... 53 Parliamentary sovereignty means that Parliament can, if it chooses, legislate ... ...
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