Legislative Pique: A New Constitutional Convention?

Samuel Willis
7 min readDec 7, 2021

Parliament can overturn judgments made by judges. Anyone familiar with the UK constitution could tell you this.

Indeed, every time Parliament legislates in an area previously governed solely by common law, it is either scrapping or modifying judge-made law. The modern democratic, administrative, and regulatory state is to a great extent a statutory creature.

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Samuel Willis

‘When things are patternless, their fascination’s stronger. / Failed form is hectic with loveliness, and compels us longer.’