Just a wee warning: the UKSC does not in fact rule that Art 2 of the Windsor Framework can have no direct effect. It rules that it does not have the particular direct effects contended for by the applicants in this case.
Lots to absorb from today’s UKSC jmt in Dillon, but on a first reading para 145 strikes me as particularly potent. For the law to have had anything like the effects for which certain parties (and commentators on here!) have contended would require much clearer language than was actually enacted.
If Parliament cannot legislate contrary to basic rights other than with the clearest words, perhaps the opposite also holds. For new rights and remedies to be created we need the clearest language, not implication piled upon implication.
”We are such stuff as dreams are made on,
And our little lives are rounded with a sleep…”
One of Shakespeare’s last plays, The Tempest, was first performed at Whitehall Palace in 1611, & printed in First Folio 1623.
The Tempest painted by Hogarth c 1736 Nostell Priory National Trust
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This is the first post arising out of an event a few months ago. Very happy to receive additional contributions on the theme.
Marsh's Library
A huge thank you to everyone who made the Economic Aspects of the Constitution conference such a success.
Special thanks to Paul Scott for organising a thoughtful and timely event, and to all our speakers for their insightful contribution.
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Adam Tomkins
Adam Tomkins
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Adam Tomkins: On ABJ: Proscribed Organisations, Proportionality, and Freedom of Speech ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/04/20/a...
