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October 2023 to January 2024

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 May 2024

Frank Cranmer
Frank Cranmer*
Affiliation:
Fellow, St Chad's College, Durham, UK Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Law and Religion, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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Probably the biggest legal news of the period under consideration was the judgment of the Supreme Court in R (AAA (Syria) & Ors) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2023] UKSC 42, [2023] WLR 4433, in which it held unanimously that the Government's policy of sending asylum-seekers to Rwanda was unlawful. One critical issue was that under section 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998, it is unlawful for a public authority to act in a way that is incompatible with a right under the ECHR – and the Secretary of State is a public authority for that purpose.

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Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , May 2024 , pp. 213 - 218
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2024

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References

1 HC Deb (2022–23) vol 740, c639.

2 S Swinford and M Dathan, ‘James Cleverly: Rwanda plan is not the be all and end all’ (The Times, 24 November 2023).

3 For full details of the proposals, see Cranmer, F, ‘How not to announce changes to the Immigration Rules?’ (2024) 26 Ecc LJ (current issue)Google Scholar.

4 See <https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/55/enacted>; all references to websites in this report were accessed on 5 January 2024.

5 HM Government, ‘The King's Speech: Background Briefing Notes’ (Prime Minister's Office 7 November 2023), 72: <https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/654a21952f045e001214dcd7/The_King_s_Speech_background_briefing_notes.pdf>.

6 <https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/863/contents/made>.

7 Law Commission of England and Wales, ‘Laws on Burial, Cremation and New Funerary Methods to be reviewed’, 30 November 2023.

8 <https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/questions-and-answers/question?ref=S6W-23651>.

9 For the recent history, see P Edge and T Bondaroff, ‘Changes to Legislative Prayer in the Isle of Man’ in Law & Religion UK, 4 July 2022, <https://lawandreligionuk.com/2022/07/04/changes-to-legislative-prayer-in-the-isle-of-man/>.

10 House of Keys, Select Committee on the Functioning of Tynwald, Third Report PP 2018/0018, 7, <https://www.tynwald.org.im/spfile?file=/business/pp/Reports/2018-PP-0018.pdf>.

11 Ibid, 18.

12 <http://www.tynwald.org.im/spfile?file=/business/bills/Bills/Isle-of-Man-Constitution-Bill-2023.pdf>.

13 <https://bills.parliament.uk/publications/53286/documents/4125>.