Public Law Publications
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A collection of recent publications on UK public and administrative law
Graeme Watt, "GCHQ: An Unsure Foundation" (Ahead of Print, Judicial Review)
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GCHQ: An Unsure Foundation
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November 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Graeme Watt, "GCHQ: An Unsure Foundation" (Ahead of Print, Judicial Review)
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Guy Baldwin, "Positive Obligations to Protect the Population under Human Rights Law" (Ahead of Print, Judicial Review)
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Positive Obligations to Protect the Population under Human Rights Law
Published in Judicial Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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November 21, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Guy Baldwin, "Positive Obligations to Protect the Population under Human Rights Law" (Ahead of Print, Judicial Review)
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Tim Sayer, "Judicial Review and Good Administration" (Ahead of Print, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies)
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Judicial Review and Good Administration: Refining the Public Interest Model of Judicial Intervention
Abstract. While UK judicial review is comparatively under-theorised, the literature has been catching up, with numerous theoretical underpinnings now ident
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November 21, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Tim Sayer, "Judicial Review and Good Administration" (Ahead of Print, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies)
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Aileen Kavanagh, "Overuse of the Override" (Ahead of Print, Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence)
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October 30, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Aileen Kavanagh, "Overuse of the Override" (Ahead of Print, Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence)
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Maria Kotsoni, "The protection of the right to energy through the European Social Charter" (Human Rights Law Review, Ahead of Print)
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The protection of the right to energy through the European Social Charter
Abstract. The (Revised) European Social Charter [(R)ESC] does not explicitly protect a right to energy. However, in this article I show that recent develop
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October 30, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Maria Kotsoni, "The protection of the right to energy through the European Social Charter" (Human Rights Law Review, Ahead of Print)
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Nicole Busby, "Advancing human rights law in Scotland" (2025) 5 European Human Rights Law Review 548
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October 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Nicole Busby, "Advancing human rights law in Scotland" (2025) 5 European Human Rights Law Review 548
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Stephen Shute, "Challenging Parole Decisions in England and Wales: Reconsideration and Set Aside" (Modern Law Review, Ahead of Print)
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October 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Stephen Shute, "Challenging Parole Decisions in England and Wales: Reconsideration and Set Aside" (Modern Law Review, Ahead of Print)
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Paul O'Connell, "Socio-economic rights redux" (King's Law Journal, Ahead of Print)
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Socio-economic rights redux
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October 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Paul O'Connell, "Socio-economic rights redux" (King's Law Journal, Ahead of Print)
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Conor Gearty, "Recovering the good life: enhancing the underlying political determinants for social rights enjoyment in the UK" (King's Law Journal, Ahead of Print)
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Recovering the good life: enhancing the underlying political determinants for social rights enjoyment in the UK
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October 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Conor Gearty, "Recovering the good life: enhancing the underlying political determinants for social rights enjoyment in the UK" (King's Law Journal, Ahead of Print)
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Janina Boughey and Anita Mackay, "Administrative justice in public and private prisons" [2025] Public Law 738
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October 22, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Janina Boughey and Anita Mackay, "Administrative justice in public and private prisons" [2025] Public Law 738
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Richard Craven, "Legitimacy and the administration of the airwaves auctions" [2025] Public Law 714
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October 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Richard Craven, "Legitimacy and the administration of the airwaves auctions" [2025] Public Law 714
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Matilda Gillis, "Call it torture: sexual offences, human rights and the Metropolitan Police" [2025] Public Law 691
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October 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Matilda Gillis, "Call it torture: sexual offences, human rights and the Metropolitan Police" [2025] Public Law 691
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Susannah Paul, "Administrative empathy: a new value in administrative justice" [2025] Public Law 670
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October 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Susannah Paul, "Administrative empathy: a new value in administrative justice" [2025] Public Law 670
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Stuart Wallace, "The Human Rights Act under siege: the vulnerability of fundamental rights protection under the United Kingdom constitution" [2025] Public Law 648
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October 22, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Stuart Wallace, "The Human Rights Act under siege: the vulnerability of fundamental rights protection under the United Kingdom constitution" [2025] Public Law 648
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Adam Evans, "Total recall? Senedd reform and the balance between parties and voters: the case study of the Standards of Conduct Committee's recall proposals" [2025] Public Law 639
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October 22, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Adam Evans, "Total recall? Senedd reform and the balance between parties and voters: the case study of the Standards of Conduct Committee's recall proposals" [2025] Public Law 639
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Farrah Raza, "Patience needed: NHS regulation, decision-making, and future challenges for patient choice" [2025] Public Law 631
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October 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Farrah Raza, "Patience needed: NHS regulation, decision-making, and future challenges for patient choice" [2025] Public Law 631
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Michael Lobban, "O'Reilly v Mackman and English public law" (2025) 141 Law Quarterly Review 537
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September 16, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Michael Lobban, "O'Reilly v Mackman and English public law" (2025) 141 Law Quarterly Review 537
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Bernard McCloskey, "The renaissance of human dignity?" (Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, Ahead of Print)
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Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly
The right to human dignity is tantalisingly elusive, refreshingly undefined, potentially virile and incontestably responsive to changing societal conditions: just the recipe for common law judges worl...
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September 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Bernard McCloskey, "The renaissance of human dignity?" (Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, Ahead of Print)
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János Fiala-Butora, Michael Ashley Stein and Matthew S Smith, "Disability human rights standards before the European Court of Human Rights—false convergence and methodologically-driven divergence?" (Human Rights Law Review, Ahead of Print)
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Disability human rights standards before the European Court of Human Rights—false convergence and methodologically-driven divergence?
ABSTRACT. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has positively impacted the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Overall,
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September 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
János Fiala-Butora, Michael Ashley Stein and Matthew S Smith, "Disability human rights standards before the European Court of Human Rights—false convergence and methodologically-driven divergence?" (Human Rights Law Review, Ahead of Print)
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Paul Scott, "Security vetting in the commonwealth five eyes states" (King's Law Journal, Ahead of Print)
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Security vetting in the commonwealth five eyes states
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September 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Paul Scott, "Security vetting in the commonwealth five eyes states" (King's Law Journal, Ahead of Print)
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Lewis Graham, "Following wrongly decided precedent" (King's Law Journal, Ahead of Print)
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Following wrongly decided precedent
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September 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Lewis Graham, "Following wrongly decided precedent" (King's Law Journal, Ahead of Print)
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Bernard Keenan, "From interception to integration: encryption, bulk data, and the investigatory powers regime" (King's Law Journal, Ahead of Print)
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From interception to integration: encryption, bulk data, and the investigatory powers regime
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September 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Bernard Keenan, "From interception to integration: encryption, bulk data, and the investigatory powers regime" (King's Law Journal, Ahead of Print)
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Philippe Lagassé and Sebastian Payne, "Statutory intelligence, prerogative deployments: Explaining varying legal authorities for national security in Westminster states" (King's Law Journal, Ahead of Print)
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Statutory intelligence, prerogative deployments: Explaining varying legal authorities for national security in Westminster states
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September 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Philippe Lagassé and Sebastian Payne, "Statutory intelligence, prerogative deployments: Explaining varying legal authorities for national security in Westminster states" (King's Law Journal, Ahead of Print)
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Joanna Bell, "Judicial Review of the Improper Policy Implementation of Treaties" (Modern Law Review, Ahead of Print)
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Judicial Review of the Improper Policy Implementation of Treaties
In recent years the courts of England and Wales have come to recognise a new iteration of judicial review which this article terms ‘review of improper policy implementation of treaties’ or ‘RIPIT’. R....
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August 13, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Joanna Bell, "Judicial Review of the Improper Policy Implementation of Treaties" (Modern Law Review, Ahead of Print)
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Roger Masterman and Matthew Nicholson, "The Dissolution of Dualism" (Cambridge Law Journal, Ahead of Print)
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THE DISSOLUTION OF DUALISM
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Roger Masterman and Matthew Nicholson, "The Dissolution of Dualism" (Cambridge Law Journal, Ahead of Print)
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