Constitutional Conventions in UK Law
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R (Miller and Another) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union; Re McCord's application
... ... judges have to decide concern questions relating to the constitutional arrangements of the United Kingdom. These proceedings raise such issues ... a principled way, through a combination of statutes, events, conventions, academic writings and judicial decisions. Reflecting its development and ... ...
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Neville Lewis and Others v Attorney General of Jamaica and Another
... ... come from decisions of the Court of Appeal of Jamaica on constitutional motions ... 4 The Constitution ... 5 Section 13 of the ... Even without reference to international conventions it is clear that the process of clemency allows the fixed penalty to be ... ...
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Thomas and Another v Baptiste and Others
... ... Trinidad and Tobago from the dismissal of the appellants' constitutional motions which claimed that in the events which had happened it would be ... constitutional importance of the principle that international conventions do not alter domestic law except to the extent that they are incorporated ... ...
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Belhaj and another v Straw and Others; Rahmatullah v Ministry of Defence and another (No 2)
... ... (i) The first was where the issue was "beyond the constitutional competence assigned to the courts under our conception of the separation ... legal considerations subsequently enshrined in the Geneva Conventions of 1949. For example, the Fourth Convention relative to the Protection of ... ...
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Black-Clawson International Ltd v Papierwerke Waldhof-Aschaffenburg A.G.
... ... This could be avoided by making conventions with foreign countries, but the Committee say that there were two ... 13. The second is one of constitutional principle. Legislation in England is passed by Parliament, and put in the ... ...
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Fothergill v Monarch Airlines Ltd
... ... the Courts of this country are faced with texts of treaties or conventions in different languages were discussed in James Buchanan & Co. Ltd. v ... This, as it seems to me, raises a question of constitutional significance as to the functions of courts of justice as interpreters of ... ...
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R (on the application of Miller) v The Prime Minister ; Cherry and Others v Advocate General for Scotland
... ... to withdraw from the Union “in accordance with its own constitutional requirements”. That member state is to notify the European Council of ... over the course of our history by common law, statutes, conventions and practice. Since it has not been codified, it has developed ... ...
- Attorney General for Canada v Attorney General for Ontario
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R (Daly) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
... ... Jeffrey Jowell QC, "Beyond the Rule of Law: Towards Constitutional Judicial Review" [2000] PL 671 ; Craig, Administrative Law, 4th ed ... Conventions, constitutions, bills of rights and the like respond by recognising rather ... ...
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R v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate, ex parte Pinochet Ugarte (No. 3)
... ... 1: he pointed out that there are a number of international conventions (for example the Yugoslav War Crimes Statute and the Rwanda War Crimes ... In some countries which adhere to the traditions of constitutional monarchy these will be confined largely to ceremonial or symbolic acts ... ...
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