On 13 July 2026, the Immigration and Asylum Bill is scheduled to receive its second reading in the House of Commons. Public attention has fixed on Part 2 and its Article 8 clauses. This post is about Part 1
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On 13 July 2026, the Immigration and Asylum Bill is scheduled to receive its second reading in the House of Commons. Public attention has fixed on Part 2 and its Article 8 clauses. This post is about Part 1…
The UKCLA blog will shortly take its annual summer break, running from Friday 17 July to Monday 24 August.
Thank you to all of our authors and readers in the first part of 2026.
Se-shauna Wheatle, Leah Trueblood, and Paul
The literature on section 2 of the Human Rights Act 1998 has largely been preoccupied with a single direction of travel: how far domestic courts may go beyond the Strasbourg case law, or against it. Those are the questions behind Ullah, behind the…
This post is part of a series on ‘Economic Aspects of the Constitution’. The other posts in the series will be available here.
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The Keele Law Review is pleased to announce a call for submissions for its 7th volume (2027) on the theme of ‘Private Power, Democracy, and Human Rights’.
The increasing concentration of private economic and technological power raises profound questions for democratic governance,…
Following the release of the Report by the National Audit Office (‘NAO’) (‘the Report’) on royal residences, it has emerged that King Charles pays the rent on properties occupied by his nieces, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie. The properties are…
This post is part of a series on ‘Economic Aspects of the Constitution’. The other posts in the series will be available here.
In 1966, as England won their last men’s football World Cup, the Observer noted that the…