‘Next week, the House of Lords will debate introducing a written constitution. This is also something that the Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, discussed over the summer. Lord (Jonathan) Sumption makes the case against the UK adopting a written, or codified, constitution.’
UCL Constitution Unit, 16th October 2026
Source: blogs.ucl.ac.uk
‘Next week, the House of Lords will debate introducing a written constitution. This is also something that the Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, discussed over the summer. Sionaidh Douglas-Scott makes the case in favour of the UK adopting a written, or codified, constitution.’
UCL Constitution Unit, 15th October 2026
Source: blogs.ucl.ac.uk
‘A 25-year-old convention preventing MPs referring to live court cases in the Houses of Parliament remains fit for purpose, a parliamentary committee has concluded.’
Law Society Gazette, 20th October 2026
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘In June I argued on this blog that the Supreme Court’s decision in A Reference by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland [2026] UKSC 16 broke faith with a discipline that runs from chapter 29 of the Magna Carta through the writ of habeas corpus to Article 5: that a confinement must rest on a reason which can be stated, recorded and tested before someone other than the confiner. The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards were that discipline exercised by proxy, for people who cannot demand it for themselves. The Reference withdrew the proxy from anyone who can be read as content, by treating valid consent as independent of capacity. I said then that contentment is not consent, and that those most affected would be those least able to object.’
UK Constitutional Law Association, 19th October 2026
Source: ukconstitutionallaw.org
‘Iris Ferber KC and James Hoile cover the first case authority to consider the (then) new Public Sector Equality Duty in section 149 of the Equality Act.’
Local Government Lawyer, 20th October 2026
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Iris Ferber KC and Stefan Liberadzki cover a case which focuses on the Public Sector Equality Duty.’
Local Government Lawyer, 20th October 2026
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Iris Ferber KC and Martin Horne cover a case which answers some fundamental questions on the application of the Equality Act burden of proof.’
Local Government Lawyer, 19th October 2026
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The sixth report from the Covid inquiry said the care sector appeared to be “something of an afterthought” in the early stages of the pandemic and there was no “protective ring” put around homes as claimed by ministers at the time.’
BBC News, 20th October 2026
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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