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R (HS2 Action Alliance Ltd) v Secretary of State for Transport

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principles of the EU and UK be decided by courts under the constitutional law of the United Kingdom, rendered EU law’s position in the UK determinant not only by the European Communities Act 1972 but also by a number of other constitutional instruments that recognized fundamental principles “of which Parliament when it enacted the
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did not either contemplate or authorise the abrogation.” This constrains the applicability of EU law instruments in the UK and blurs the distinction between ‘constitutional’ and’ ordinary’ legislation, in that EU law only has supremacy 'if not derogated in other primary legislation. The judgment also
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The Supreme Court held that the UK has constitutional instruments that the courts would not interpret to be abrogated without close scrutiny. Lord Reed observed that the scrutiny of the legislative process required by the EU directive may amount to an impingement “upon long-established constitutional
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Nor could the objections of insufficient judiciary scrutiny be resolved by applying the supremacy of European Union law forwarded by the Court of Justice of the European Union as the supremacy of European Union law depends on the European Communities Act 1972. That conflict between constitutional
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171."Where the legislature has agreed a clearly expressed measure, reflecting the legislators’ choices and compromises in order to achieve agreement, it is not for courts to rewrite the legislation, or extend or ‘improve’ it in respects which the legislator clearly did not
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criticized the European Court of Justice’s previous case law on the SEA Directive and EIA Directive where the court interpreted the meaning of certain articles beyond what the European Parliament had prescribed. The judgment states:
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Judges unanimously dismissed claims that the government was failing to comply with the strategic environmental assessment directive, and that the hybrid bill before parliament would breach the environmental impact
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Ltd claimed that the Secretary of State should have done a strategic environmental assessment under Directive 2001/42 before the government's 'Next Steps' Command Paper on
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HS2 Action Alliance Ltd, R (on the application of) v The Secretary of State for Transport & Anor
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principles governing the relationship between Parliament and the courts” including the
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2001) art 7. They also argued that a hybrid bill procedure did not comply with the
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R (Miller) v The Prime Minister and Cherry v Advocate General for Scotland
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case, concerning the conflict of law between a national legal system and
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railway from London to Birmingham (phase 1), and then on to
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Index

R (HS2 Action Alliance Limited) v Secretary of State for Transport

High Speed Rail
UKSC 3
Constitution
UKSC 3
UK constitutional law
European Union law
Buckinghamshire County Council
Hillingdon London Borough Council
Heathrow Hub
HS2
hybrid bill
High Speed 2
Manchester
Sheffield
Leeds
Aarhus Convention
Environmental Impact Assessment Directive 2011
EIAD 2011
Magna Carta
Petition of Right 1628
Bill of Rights
Claim of Rights Act 1689
Act of Settlement 1701
Act of Union 1707
European Communities Act 1972
Human Rights Act 1998
Constitutional Reform Act 2005
European Communities Act 1972

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