Hearings
England & Wales
11 Oct 2001 (Directions hearing) [2001] EWHC 825 (Admin), QBD (Scott Baker J)
18 Feb 2002 [2002] EWHC 195 (Admin); [2003] QB 151; [2002] 3 WLR 247; [2002] 4 All ER 156, DC (Laws LJ and Crane J)
Thoburn v Sunderland City Council
Additional names
Collins v Sutton London Borough Council
Harman v Cornwall County Council
Hunt v Hackney London Borough Council
Subject Matter
STATUTE — Repeal — Implied repeal — Statute incorporating European Community rights and obligations into United Kingdom law — Whether constitutional statute — Whether susceptible to implied repeal — Statute conferring power to amend primary legislation by means of subordinate legislation — Whether power impliedly partially repealed by later statute — Subordinate legislation amending later statute pursuant to power — Whether ultra vires — European Communities Act 1972, s 2(2)(4) — Weights and Measures Act 1985, ss 1, 8 — Weights and Measures (Metrication Amendments) Regulations 1994 — Weights and Measures Act 1985 (Metrication) (Amendment) Order 1994 — Units of Measurement Regulations 1994 — Price Marking Order 1999
[2002] EWHC 195 (Admin); [2003] QB 151; [2002] 3 WLR 247; [2002] 4 All ER 156, DC
Commentary
Law and Policy Blog
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Case comment
Is it, at last, time to say “good bye” to Thoburn and the idea of “constitutional statutes”? Case comment