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Do We Need Written Constitution?
In his article entitled, ‘The Sound of Silence: Constitutional Law Without a Constitution’ (1994) Law Quarterly Review, Sir Stephen Sedley notes , that it can be claimed:
"...in this country we have constitutional law without having a constitution, not because our constitution is unwritten but because our constitutional law, historically at least, is merely descriptive: it offers an account of how the country has come to be governed."
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Rule of Law
In The Rule of Law in Britain Today (1989) the Constitutional Reform Centre noted that:
"Dicey held it to be essential to the rule of law that public authorities should be subject to the same law as the ordinary citizen, administered in the ordinary courts, and many of the Euro...
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Separation of Power
The concept of the separation of powers also seeks to attain this purpose by segregating both the functions and personnel of the three branches of government: executive, legislature and judiciary.
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Parliamentary Sovereignty
in 1978 the House of Commons Select Committee on Procedure concluded that:
"...the balance of advantage between Parliament and government in the day to day working of the constitution is now weighted in favour of the government to a degree which arouses widespread anxiety and is inimica...
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Dynamic and Evolving Constitution
Nolan LJ in M v Home Office (1992), that:
"...the proper constitutional relationship of the executive with the courts is that the courts will respect all acts of the executive within its legal province, and that the executive will respect all decisions of the courts as to what its lawfu...
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Judicial Review
David Pannick QC noted in The Times, 1995:
"judges are well aware of the constitutional reality that Parliament exercises very little control over the content of primary legislation, let alone delegated legislation or administrative decisions. Nor can Parliament realistically be ex...
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