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ECJ has said Marks & Spencer Group must prove it was discriminated against in U.K. law to win a refund of value-added tax it says was wrongly charged on its teacakes.
Did we not used to have a British High court
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Britain No Constitution?
It is claimed that Britain has no written constitution. We often hear quoted the doctrine ‘No parliament may bind its successor’. Today most often it is used to imply that there are no constitutional obligations limiting Parliament’s power.
If this were true there would be no constitution and the sovereignty of Parliament would be unlimited.
The reality is we do have a constitution which is both written and unwritten, but modern politicians by stressing only the parliamentary convention, which are nothing more than gentlemen’s agreements between the parties have raised those conventions above the written parts of our constitution.
But more than that they have also undermined those very same Parliamentary conventions, governments and parliaments do constantly bind their successors.
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Regulations
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Winston Churchill
