Public law summary sheets

UNIT 1 - SOURCES OF THE UK CONSTITUTION
PUBLIC LAW PRIVATE LAW UK CONSTITUION
SOU
Relationships •Unwritten ❌
Relationships 1. Statutes
between individuals • Flexible🏋
between individuals 2. Case law
and other • Monarchial 👑
and the state 3. Royal pr
individuals • Parliamentary 🏛
4. Constitu
•Unitary 🤝
convent
STATUTES
Examples:
Constitutional statutes
• very important, • Magna Carta 1215 - end mon
• Unwritten absolute power
• shape the basic rules between people and the government or • Bill of Rights 1689 - more adj
change essential rights. set rules on how government and power balance between king a
citizens interact - Thoburn v Sunderland City Council
parliament
[2002]
• Acts of Union 1706/7 - Englan
Importance Scotland united under single p
• help separate legal powers, only parliament allowed to pass • Parliament Acts 1911 & 1949
laws separating powers of legislation for the judiciary power balance between electe
• are binding to everyone unelected HoL
• define rights and obligations • Police and Criminal Evidence
gave police more powers

How they change • Human Rights Act 1998 - bro