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A collection of recent publications on UK public and administrative law
Alistair Mills, "Leaving Legislation to the Legislature" (Judicial Review, Ahead of Print) Link:
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Leaving Legislation to the Legislature
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Jack Trevella, "Variable Rationality Review in the UK – Justified, But Still Objectionable?" (Judicial Review, Ahead of Print) Link:
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Variable Rationality Review in the UK – Justified, But Still Objectionable?
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10854681.2026.2665564
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Cassandra Somers-Joce, "Significant Academic Articles in 2025: Or, the Purpose of Public Law Scholarship in the Brave New World" (Judicial Review, Ahead of Print) Link:
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Significant Academic Articles in 2025: Or, the Purpose of Public Law Scholarship in the Brave New World
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10854681.2026.2682700
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Edward Willis, "Manner and form entrenchment in the unwritten, political constitution" [2026] Public Law 508 WestLaw Link:
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Ariella Gordon, "Disguised legislation in Australia, a lesson for the United Kingdom" [2026] Public Law 484 WestLaw Link:
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Thomas Peck, "Contracting out, opting out: does the Mental Health Act 2025 address the human rights protection gap in commissioned mental health care?" [2026] Public Law 470 WestLaw Link:
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Suzanne Farg, "Navigating NHS resource prioritisation: themes from judicial review" [2026] Public Law 447 WestLaw Link:
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David Kershaw, "Fabricating the forbidden in the judicial review of prerogative power" [2026] Public Law 422 WestLaw Link:
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SH Bailey, "Local authorities and insolvency" [2026] Public Law 402 WestLaw Link:
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Bernadette Walsh, "For Women Scotland Ltd v Scottish Ministers: a comment from a drafting perspective" [2026] Public Law 387 WestLaw Link:
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Mike Gordon, "The United Kingdom's new Ethics and Integrity Commission: Labour's retreat on ministerial standards" [2026] Public Law 378 WestLaw Link:
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Jed Meers, "Discrimination in the local welfare state" [2026] Public Law 371 WestLaw Link:
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Cassandra Somers-Joce and Joe Tomlinson, "Human Rights, Public Law, and Administrative Burden" (2026) 89(3) Modern Law Review 507 Link:
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Katie Pentney, "Disinformation, Foreign Interference and the Right to Free Elections" (2026) 89(3) Modern Law Review 492 Link:
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Disinformation, Foreign Interference and the Right to Free Elections before the ECtHR in Bradshaw and Others v United Kingdom - The Modern Law Review
https://www.modernlawreview.co.uk/may-2026/disinformation-foreign-interference-right-free-elections-ecthr-bradshaw-others-v-united-kingdom/
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Shreya Atrey, "Grounds in Equality Law: Before and After For Women Scotland" (2026) 89(3) Modern Law Review 379 Link:
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Grounds in Equality Law: Before and After For Women Scotland
Grounds are the fulcrum of equality law. Thus, discrimination is discrimination when it is based on or because of certain kinds of personal characteristics or grounds such as race or sex. But there i....
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Arianna Vedaschi and Chiara Graziani, "The securitisation of immigration: trends and challenges in Western Europe" (2026) 2 European Human Rights Law Review 177 WestLaw Link:
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Sze Hong Lam, "Written by two empires: the convergence of the British and Chinese "national security" regimes in Hong Kong"(2026) 2 European Human Rights Law Review 150 WestLaw Link:
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Kieran McEvoy and Daniel Holder, "Law, secrecy and the "smothering blanket" of national security: how (not) to acknowledge past wrongs" (2026) 2 European Human Rights Law Review 132 WestLaw Link:
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Lord Justice Singh, "The Investigatory Powers Tribunal: reflections on seven years as its President" (2026) 2 European Human Rights Law Review 113 WestLaw Link:
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Mustaqim Iqbal, "Public interest balancing in the Supreme Court: In re Secretary of State for Northern Ireland [2025] UKSC 47" (2026) 45(2) Civil Justice Quarterly 83 WestLaw Link:
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Ayesha Riaz, "Strangled by reform: legal aid, professional autonomy, and access to justice in the asylum sector from 1949 to 2024" [2026] Public Law 315 WestLaw Link:
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Jonathan Collinson, "The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration in the administrative justice and accountability forum" [2026] Public Law 285 WestLaw Link:
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Wong Xuan, "A remedy of one's own: damages under the HRA 1998" [2026] Public Law 251 WestLaw Link:
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John Adenitire, "On bakers, website designers, and compelled speech" [2026] Public Law 232 WestLaw Link:
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Alison Young, "Parliament is not sovereign - and it's a good thing too!" [2026] Public Law 208 WestLaw Link:
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Steven Cammiss et al, "Political activism in the courts from the POA 1986 to the POA 2023: repression and resistance" [2026] Public Law 190 WestLaw Link:
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Michael Hamilton, "Towards "total control": the introduction of mandatory notification under section 11 of the Public Order Act 1986" [2026] Public Law 183 Westlaw Link:
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Richard Martin, "The conditions of protest: sections 12 and 14 of the Public Order Act 1986 forty years on" [2026] Public Law 173 WestLaw Link:
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Charmian Werren, "Policing protest since 1986: all change?" [2026] Public Law 165 WestLaw Link:
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Katrina Navickas, "The 1986 Public Order Act in historical perspective" [2026] Public Law 157 WestLaw Link:
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David Mead, "The Public Order Act 1986 at forty" [2026] Public Law 155 WestLaw Link:
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Paul Scott, "Of floors and ceilings: the devolution of social security in action" (Legal Studies, Ahead of Print) Link:
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Of floors and ceilings: the devolution of social security in action
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Ewan Smith, "Devolution After Empire" (Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Ahead of Print) Link:
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Devolution after Empire
Abstract. This article questions the claim that the UK is a unitary state. It argues that the UK was, and perhaps is, an empire. Empires are states in whic
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Lewis Graham, "Interpreting the Interpretive Obligation: Empirical Insights into the Use of Section 3 of the Human Rights Act 1998" (Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Ahead of Print) Link:
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Interpreting the Interpretive Obligation: Empirical Insights into the Use of Section 3 of the Human Rights Act 1998
Abstract. —Section 3 of the Human Rights Act provides courts with a distinctive, and controversial, power to (re)interpret legislative provisions, where ‘p
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Chris Monaghan and Josie Welsh, "Working in the Shadows: The Curious Case of Shadow Lord Chancellors and the Duty to Uphold the Principle of Judicial Independence" (Judicial Review, Ahead of Print) Link:
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Working in the Shadows: The Curious Case of Shadow Lord Chancellors and the Duty to Uphold the Principle of Judicial Independence
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Kieron Spoors, "Context is Everything: The Alternative Remedies Principle After McAleenon and Ammori" (Judicial Review, Ahead of Print) Link:
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Context is Everything: The Alternative Remedies Principle After McAleenon and Ammori
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Jack Knollys, "O’Reilly v Mackman: Reassessing the Procedural Exclusivity Doctrine in Light of Recent Case Law" (Judicial Review, Ahead of Print) Link:
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O’Reilly v Mackman: Reassessing the Procedural Exclusivity Doctrine in Light of Recent Case Law
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Joe Tomlinson and Cassandra Somers-Joce, "The Emerging Law of Football" (Judicial Review, Ahead of Print) Link:
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Eliza Bechtold, "National security and free speech" (2026) 1 European Human Rights Law Review 49 WestLaw Link:
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David McKeever, "Withdrawal of citizenship as a method for countering terrorism: under-regulated and counter-productive?" (2026) 1 European Human Rights Law Review 30 WestLaw Link:
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Daniella Lock, "The executive's inside track in national security-related deportation" (2026) 1 European Human Rights Law Review 16 WestLaw Link:
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Michal Bobek, "Primacy of EU law in the age of (dis)integration" (2026) 51(1) European Law Review 3
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Kian Leong Tan, "R (Ammori) v SSHD: Reconceptualising Stays of Administrative Decisions as an Interim Remedy" (Judicial Review, Ahead of Print) Link:
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R (Ammori) v SSHD: Reconceptualising Stays of Administrative Decisions as an Interim Remedy
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Joseph Finnerty and Başak Çali, "Legitimate aims and ulterior purposes in human rights law: opening up a comparative research agenda" (Human Rights Law Review, Ahead of Print) Link:
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Legitimate aims and ulterior purposes in human rights law: opening up a comparative research agenda†
ABSTRACT. This article introduces the Human Rights Law Review Symposium on ‘Legitimate aims and Ulterior Purposes in Human Rights Law: Comparative Perspect
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Amel Alghrani, Seamus Byrne and Deborah Tyfield, "School exclusions and independent review panels in England: a case for urgent rights-based reform" (2025) 37(4) Child and Family Law Quarterly 321 WestLaw Link:
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Alistair Mills, "Time limits for challenging administrative policies and guidance" (2026) 45(1) Civil Justice Quarterly 1 WestLaw Link:
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Charlotte O'Brien and Alice Welsh, "Side-stepping international law on the sly: the secret severing of the EU Settlement Scheme from the Withdrawal Agreement" (2025) 39(4) Journal of Immigration Asylum and Nationality Law 314 WestLaw Link:
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Helen Rodway, "Formalisation-centric or formalisation-blind: understanding the duality of article 14 ECHR" (2025) 6 European Human Rights Law Review 633 WestLaw Link:
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Alice Caudurol, "The persistent denial of abortion right in Italy" (2025) 6 European Human Rights Law Review 667 WestLaw Link:
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Mark Elliott, "Administrative law doctrine and constitutional principle in the Supreme Court" (2025) 84(2) Cambridge Law Journal 229 WestLaw Link:
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