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HC Deb 03 March 1953 vol 512 cc193-257193 §Order for Second Reading read. §3.32 p.m. §The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Sir David Maxwell Fyfe) I beg to move, “That the Bill be now read a Second time.” This Bill is the fourth Measure authorising an alteration of the Royal titles which has Read More …
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Constitution Watch is contacted regularly with claims “Article 61” of Magna Carta is a remedy to tyrannical government here in Australia 800+ years after its first version came into existence. The social media claim made by many people states we have the right to lawfully dissent or rebel if they believe they’re being governed unjustly. Other Read More …
Part I of this paper analyses the current UK constitutional ‘torpor’, arguing that despite what appear to be a number of substantial constitutional reforms in recent decades, the persistent inviolability of parliamentary sovereignty is inhibiting deeper constitutional restructuring. The result is a constitutional law in ‘crisis’ and potentially at the precipice of a paradigmatic revolution. Read More …
Today, Bindmans LLP client Keith Neale’s conviction for obstructing a police officer was quashed by the High Court, sitting at Cardiff. In an important judgment on the right to silence, the legal duties of citizens and the operation of Coronavirus Regulations, Mrs Justice Steyn and Lord Justice Dingemans held that justices at Newport Magistrates’ Court had erred Read More …
The Relationship between the Statute of Monopolies and the Law of the Time The first point to be made about the Act itself is that it has been considered to be ‘nothing more than a declaration of what the common law had always been; this perspective is, however, limited to the regulation of patents for Read More …
Perhaps the most remarkable development in my time in the law has been the growth of public law cases. Fifty years ago there were hardly any. The principal diet of the House of Lords consisted of commercial and tax cases. Now the Supreme Court is predominantly a court of public law, often performing the role Read More …
Royal Titles Act 1953 1953 CHAPTER 9 1 and 2 Eliz 2 An Act to provide for an alteration of the Royal Style and Titles. [26th March 1953] Whereas it is expedient that the style and titles at present appertaining to the Crown should be altered so as to reflect more clearly the existing Read More …
The author wrote to the Attorney General of Australia to establish if anything existed or was in place to exempt the courts, judges and people of every State and every part of the Commonwealth from the Treason and Felony Act in the practice of denying Her Majesty’s Rightful Title and to establish if anything existed Read More …
Petition of Right, 1628, a statement of civil liberties sent by the English Parliament to Charles I . Refusal by Parliament to finance the king’s unpopular foreign policy had caused his government to exact forced loans and to quarter troops in subjects’ houses as an economy measure. Arbitrary arrest and imprisonment for opposing these policies Read More …