Public Law and the UK Supreme Court Key Cases and Decisions

List of Contributors  

Editors’ Preface

Part 1: Constitutional Law

1. R (Cart) v Upper Tribunal [2011] UKSC 18

Reports of the Death of Cart are Greatly Exaggerated

Robert Thomas and Joe Tomlinson 

2. AXA v Lord Advocate [2011] UKSC 46

AXA and the two roads of devolution

Anurag Deb

3. R (Chester) v Secretary of State for Justice [2013] UKSC 63

Haunted by Obiter Dicta 

Samuel Willis 

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   

Eleni Frantziou 

5. R (Evans) v Attorney General [2015] UKSC 21

Evans and the Surprising Strength of the Principle of Legality 

Adam Perry 

6. R v Jogee [2016] UKSC 8

Jogee and the Mechanics of Criminal Law Development 

Findlay Stark 

7. R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union [2017] UKSC 5

Prerogative, Law and Value 

Paul Craig

8. R (Bancoult) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (No 2) [2016] UKSC 35

The Colonial Constitution in the Supreme Court 

Tom Frost 

9. Privacy International v Investigatory Powers Tribunal [2019] UKSC 22

What Public Lawyers Shouldn’t Overlook about Privacy International 

Joanna Bell 

10.  R (Miller) v Prime Minister [2019] UKSC 41

Law, politics and the constitution 

Mark Elliott

11. R (Begum) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] UKSC 7

Executive-Mindedness as Outdated Constitutionalism in the Shamima Begum Case 

Daniella Lock 

12. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill Reference [2021] UKSC 42

Drawing the Line: Sovereignty and Devolution 

Nicole Busby 

13. Pwr v DPP [2022] UKSC 2

Generational Shift? Counterterrorism Responses before the UK Supreme Court 

CRG Murray 

14. Re Allister’s Application for Judicial Review [2023] UKSC 5

The Importance of Constitutional Wisdom 

Alison L Young

15. R (AAA (Syria)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2023] UKSC 42

The Strong Gravitational Force of AAA 

James Robottom 

Part 2: Administrative Law

16. R (Moseley) v London Borough of Haringey [2014] UKSC 56 

Moseley, Consultations, and the Age of Austerity  

Elizabeth A O’Loughlin 

17. Mandalia v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] UKSC 59 

Administrative policies and the principle of consistency 

Kenny Chng 

18. R (Keyu) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2015] UKSC 69 

Keyu’s Case and the Standards of Substantive Review 

Hasan Dindjer 

19. R (Public Law Project) v Lord Chancellor [2016] UKSC 39 

Henry VIII powers and The Public Law Project case: Divorced, beheaded, died? 

Lee Marsons 

20. R (UNISON) v Lord Chancellor [2017] UKSC 51 

UNISON and the role of the Supreme Court  

Ariella Gordon

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? 

Gabriel Tan 

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  

Saba Shakil 

Part 3: Human Rights Law

23. R v Horncastle [2009] UKSC 14 

A watershed in Human Rights Act jurisprudence? 

Roger Masterman 

24. Smith v Ministry of Defence [2013] UKSC 41 

Judgecraft and Lawfare: The Supreme Court in Smith and Al-Waheed

Conall Mallory 

25.  P v Cheshire West and Chester Council [2014] UKSC 19 

Deprivations of Liberty after Cheshire West: Of Gilded Cages and Chaos 

Shona Wilson Stark 

26. R (Nicklinson) v Ministry of Justice [2014] UKSC 38 

The difficulty with discretion

Hélène Tyrrell and Conall Mallory

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 

Stevie Martin 

28. R (Steinfeld and Keidan) v Secretary of State for International Development [2018] UKSC 32 

Respect, ambits and the (ir)relevance of time 

Jens M Scherpe 

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  

Ed Bates 

30. Ziegler v DPP [2021] UKSC 23 

You wait for ages then two come along at once: An Analysis of Ziegler 

David Mead 

31. R (SC) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2021] UKSC 26 

Not taking social security law seriously? 

Charlotte O’Brien 

32. R (Elan-Cane) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] UKSC 56 

Bourgs Apart 

Kacper Majewski 

33. Re Dalton’s Application for Judicial Review [2023] UKSC 36 

The Dalton case and Article 2 of the ECHR 

Brice Dickson 

Part 4: Conclusion

34. Reflecting Upon Key UK Supreme Court Cases in Public Law
Lewis Graham and Jenny Russell 

Index

Biography

Lewis Graham is Fellow in Christ’s College, University of Cambridge.

Jenny Russell is Lecturer in Property Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London.