PARLIAMENTARY SUPREMACY

Intro:

• Dicey: Doctrine of par sov means that: Par has the right to make, unmake or amend any law and that such power is not open to challenge by any outside body.
• No parliament may bind its successors or be bound by its predecessors, and the courts cannot question the validity of an Act of Parliament.
• It is submitted however that there has be somewhat of an erosion of/modification to parliamentary sovereignty mainly due because of the UK’s membership of the European Community and the entrenchment of the ECHR with the HRA 1998


Scope of Parliamentary Sov
• Par asserts its sovereignty through Acts of Parliament

COURTS:
Once an Act has been put on the Parliament roll the courts will not challenge its validity.
• This is exemplified in Pickin v British Railways.
• Mr Pickin had sought to challenge the Private Act of 1836 on the basis that Parliament had been mislead by fraud.
• HoL held that he was not entitled to......

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Title: Uk Parlimentary Supremacy
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