Thursday 2 June 2011 at 12:30
Public Law Discussion Group
Towards a Legal Constitution: One more step
Speaker: Dr. Tarunabh Khaitan, Penningtons Student in Law, Christ Church
Venue: Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room
Since the judgment in Thoburn, Parliament itself has recognised a class of statutory provisions which are of ‘constitutional significance’. There is certainly, now, a distinction in law between constitutional and ordinary
statutory provisions. While this does not ‘entrench’ constitutional provisions from the ordinary legislative process, there are other good reasons why this distinction should be made. Thus, it is possible, indeed desirable, to distinguish between ordinary and constitutional provisions without necessarily posing any threat to parliamentary sovereignty.
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