It has been a tough few weeks for the Government, as they have seen numerous policies being stripped down, scrutinised and branded as 'unlawful' by the Supreme Court. Even with their apparent victories, issues have arisen from those cases and have resulted in changes in policy. Following my previous post on the Supreme Court's decision to reject an attempt to use j udicial review as a means to challenge a policy by the Health Secretary , it seems that the much anticipated a

Some three weeks ago, the Supreme Court delivered a hammer blow to the Home Office. The hit came in the form of a ruling that is likely to “very heavily limit, if not entirely curtail” the use of the Home Office’s ‘deport first, appeal later’ power on the grounds that it was in fact, an unlawful policy. The system was in fact, a conservative pledge in their manifesto, having been introduced in July 2014. Although highly controversial, the power is used rather regularly. On

It was reported on 14th June 2017 that the highest court within the UK, the Supreme Court, narrowly rejected an appeal from Northern Ireland regarding free abortions. This particular case was rejected in both the High Court and the Court of Appeal prior to being heard in the Supreme Court.The full judgment can be found here . The appeal concerned a mother and daughter, who were appealing for women from Northern Ireland to receive free abortions on the NHS in England. Curren