Lecture notes Public Law Notes- LLB First Year (LAW4100)

to the UK constitution
tion
Part 1:
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What is a constitution?
of laws and practices that create the
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1. "The set
basei nitions ofstate, and its componentand
related parts, and stipulate the
werebetween
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those institutions and the relations
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the different institutionsindividual. "




of Lords
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house constitution Committee.

vitain:England, Scotland and Wales.
GreatB ritain Northern Ireland: UK

coming together
& Acts or
1702 (Union with Scottand
and Union
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Act 1700
England
with Act
1707I
O Acts of Union 1800(Union with Ireland
Act1800 and ActofUnion 1800,
Moving Apart
Governmen+ of Ireland Act 1920
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S cotland A ofIPA and 2012.
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Scotland eic
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2014.
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Scotland
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bow of walls to proard 2006.
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, Form ofthe constitution:
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ofthe constitutionally.No
single legally
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Many
importantrules laid out binding document, ⑤
ina
single legally binding constitutional rules found
document. invarious
places.
ofuk
· Acts sources constitutionthe

-iamen+ Acts 1 Oland/P4P
E European Communities Act 1972.
-> Human Rig RIS Act 1908
-> Constituitoral Reform 2005
Act ↑




·Case. Laws: v Carrington(mp!)
Entick
e
; cases interpreting constituitoral
statutes
e.gcapightso

, xercised exclusively by
Prevogative powers.I
Monarch.
Government or
Example:Appointment of Prime Minister
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·constitutional conventions (non-legal source)
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No
legal, as constrated with non-legal, restrictions
who Monarch OM.
on
appointsas
for
·rationallaw: Treaties example.
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Treaty on European Union.
treaty Functioning or =urepean
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on
·European communities Act1972 gave
ECHR Law: effectto UKmembership ofEl.
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Convention Human Rights.
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European on

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Human
Rights Act (PDB renders ECHR
lawenforceable in Uk wurts.