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Dicey's Doctrine |
Positive Limb- Parliament can make or unmake any law it wishes to Negative Limb - No one can challenge an Act of parliament Third Limb- Theory of continuing sovereignty, no parliament can bind or be bound be other Parliaments |
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Support for Positive Limb |
Mortensen v Peters - acts of parliament are the supreme law of the land and courts are bound to apply it Chenney v Conn - what the statute says and provides is itself the law, highest form of the law, not for the courts to say an act of parliament is illegal. Able to override the international law at the time |
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Support for Negative Limb |
Edinburgh Dalkeith Railways v Wauchope - enrolled bill rule - all the court can do is look at parliamentary roll, if it should appear the bill has passed both houses and received royal assent, no court can inquire into the mode it was introduced. - court impose limits on themselves under PS |
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Support for Third Limb |
Ellen Street Estates v Ministry of Health - doctrine of implied repeal - legislature cannot bind itself to the form of subsequent legislation - 2 acts cannot be read together, later will prevail and earlier one will be impliedly repealed |
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Factortame |
-challenge to negative limb and third limb - MSA at odd's with EU law, MSA more recent than ECA so should be given effect, according to implied repeal. - 1972 parliament, has accepted to voluntarily limit it's sovereignty and managed to bind its successors from repealing impliedly |
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Wade |
Factortame a constitutional revolution 1st time parliament has suspended act of parliament and bound others. Doctrine of PS has changed. |
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Jackson v AG |
Obiter in Jackson - manner and form argument - limits to PS, acknowledges constitutional sovereignty as being more relevant - first express support from judges in official capacity, courts may have authority to deem act of parliament unconstitutional if it violated constitutional principles - significant challenge to dicey |
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Thoburn v Sunderland CC |
Challenge to third limb - depart from doctrine of implied repeal - limits to be placed upon the doctrine in regards to statutes, recognised constitutional statues, which must be expressly repealed and are not affected by implied repeal. |
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constitutional stautes |
magna carta hra eca entrenched into the constitution, harder to displace |
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Barber |
possible reform? Ps abandoned in Factortame, following it case law shows shift in attitudes towards it UK constitutional values a mix of Dicey's doctrine and opposing values |
