Table of Contents
Part I: Constitutional Law 1. R (Cart) v Upper Tribunal [2011] UKSC 18 Reports of the Death of Cart are Greatly Exaggerated 2. AXA v Lord Advocate [2011] UKSC 46 AXA and the two roads of devolution 3. R (Chester) v Secretary of State for Justice [2013] UKSC 63 Haunted by Obiter Dicta 4. R (HS2 Action Alliance Ltd) v Secretary of State for Transport [2014] UKSC 3 How a Failed Railway Line Became a Hallmark of the UK’s Contemporary Constitutional Identity 5. R (Evans) v Attorney General [2015] UKSC 21 Evans and the Surprising Strength of the Principle of Legality 6. R v Jogee [2016] UKSC 8 Jogee and the Mechanics of Criminal Law Development 7. R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union [2017] UKSC 5 Prerogative, Law and Value 8. R (Bancoult) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (No 2) [2016] UKSC 35 The Colonial Constitution in the Supreme Court 9. Privacy International v Investigatory Powers Tribunal [2019] UKSC 22 What Public Lawyers Shouldn’t Overlook about Privacy International 10. R (Miller) v Prime Minister [2019] UKSC 41 Law, politics and the constitution 11. R (Begum) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] UKSC 7 Executive-Mindedness as Outdated Constitutionalism in the Shamima Begum Case 12. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill Reference [2021] UKSC 42 Drawing the Line: Sovereignty and Devolution 13. Pwr v DPP [2022] UKSC 2 Generational Shift? Counter-Terrorism Responses before the UK Supreme Court 14. Re Allister’s Application for Judicial Review [2023] UKSC 5 The Importance of Constitutional Wisdom 15. R (AAA (Syria)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2023] UKSC 42 The Strong Gravitational Force of AAA Part II: Administrative Law 16. R (Moseley) v London Borough of Haringey [2014] UKSC 56 Moseley, Consultations, and the Age of Austerity 17. Mandalia v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] UKSC 59 Administrative policies and the principle of consistency 18. R (Keyu) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2015] UKSC 69 Keyu’s Case and the Standards of Substantive Review 19. R (Public Law Project) v Lord Chancellor [2016] UKSC 39 Henry VIII powers and The Public Law Project case: Divorced, beheaded, died? 20. R (UNISON) v Lord Chancellor [2017] UKSC 51 UNISON and the role of the Supreme Court 21. R (A) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] UKSC 37 and BF (Eritrea) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] UKSC 38 Judicial Review of Policies: A Devotion to Legalism? 22. R (O) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] UKSC 3 and R (Coughlan) v Minister for the Cabinet Office [2022] UKSC 11 A Fall from Grace: Common Law Constitutional Rights in O and Coughlan Part III: Human Rights Law 23. R v Horncastle [2009] UKSC 14 A watershed in Human Rights Act jurisprudence? 24. Smith v Ministry of Defence [2013] UKSC 41 Judgecraft and Lawfare: The Supreme Court in Smith and Al-Waheed 25. P v Cheshire West and Chester Council [2014] UKSC 19 Deprivations of Liberty after Cheshire West: Of Gilded Cages and Chaos 26. R (Nicklinson) v Ministry of Justice [2014] UKSC 38 The difficulty with discretion 27. Re Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission [2018] UKSC 27 Dialogue on display: the jurisprudential, legislative and political implications of the Supreme Court’s judgment on Northern Ireland’s abortion law 28. R (Steinfeld and Keidan) v Secretary of State for International Development [2018] UKSC 32 Respect, ambits and the (ir)relevance of time 29. R (Hallam) v Secretary of State for Justice [2019] UKSC 2 The UKSC’s growing confidence to form its ‘own view’ on Convention rights 30. Ziegler v DPP [2021] UKSC 23 You wait for ages then two come along at once: An Analysis of Ziegler 31. R (SC) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2021] UKSC 26 Not taking social security law seriously? 32. R (Elan-Cane) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] UKSC 56 Bourgs Apart 33. Re Dalton’s Application for Judicial Review [2023] UKSC 36 The Dalton case and Article 2 of the ECHR Part IV: Conclusion 34. Reflecting Upon Key UK Supreme Court Cases in Public Law
