Constitutional lawyer at University of Liverpool & Bingham Centre.
Interested in legislative power and its limits. Currently finishing book on parliamentary sovereignty
But easily distracted esp by delegated legislation, and statutory interpretation.
Adam Tucker
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And we're really looking forward to hearing from David later today!
Absolutely the right moment for this talk, from this author.
(Mike isn't on here. I'll tell him you were looking for him)
Nearly time for the @ukcla.bsky.social Early Career Workshop in Constitutional Law and Theory
It's always a very supportive environment and I'm looking forward to being on this year's panel. Abstracts still being accepted. Do submit if you are hesitating...
ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/04/27/c...
This case also has ramifications for the clauses to be inserted into the Representation of the People Bill to give effect to Rycroft's recommendations on overseas and crypto donations
Important contextual differences - but it's a good indication that Parliament needs to make its intention clear...
The Supreme Court in Dillon went out of its way not to confirm that EU(W) s7A is effective as a ground for disapplying primary legislation
I didn't see any explicit doubting (I'll look again more carefully). But I see enough to make me think someone involved thinks this point is at least arguable
Rycroft clauses, clearly intended to be all-or-nothing forfeiture powers, will need be drafted to safeguard against this risk. Court here are clear that it's possible - but nevertheless it needs a degree of care.
Esp in light of retrospectivity, which will act as gate to judicial circumpection.
The majority (who as @publicsectorlawyer.bsky.social notes clearly perplexed those in the minority) read down - fwiw I tend to think defensibly - a forfeiture power by narrowing what they saw as an over-inclusively drafted provision in light of its aim as revealed in pre-legislative history.
I have curated this year's @publiclaw.bsky.social Special Analysis section "The Public Order Act 1986 at Forty", with six excellent contributions which together, I/we hope, offer an insight into the rich tapestry of contemporary protest law and policing in the UK, through that historical lens.
That AI isn't yet "good enough" to mark students' essays ought to be beside the point. Outsourcing such tasks to AI is fundamentally incompatible with the intellectual engagement between student and professor that should be central to higher education. /1
www.cam.ac.uk/stories/ai-u...
I don't see this said enough: the widespread use of generative AI is not only making our jobs as educators harder logistically, but also emotionally. It is genuinely sad to be suspicious of students when you have spent so much time building a pedagogy based on trust and not being a cop. It sucks.
All our American friends used to caution that you can't predict votes from oral argument...
(Admittedly before judges said things like "yeah yeah what about the constitution?")
But I'm seeing a lot of predictions already - like scorelines. Has something fundamental changed about predictability?
