Failing to recognise a general right to damages for breaches of public law principles shows how far the law still has to go, says Denis Edwards Nowhere is it clearer that English public law is still a ...

It is well-known that EU law does not establish a separate system of remedies for breach of EU law rights. Subject to one or two particular remedies which the member states must make available, such ...

It is clear that in certain circumstances a local authority can plead lack of legal capacity as a defence to a private law claim (see Credit Suisse v Allerdale Borough Council [1996] 4 All ER 129).

Public law theory includes executive power and populism, Constitutional Theory, Public Law and Political Economy, tackling fundamental questions about the exercise of state power and authority. It ...