Sentences with phrase «constitutional significance»

Mr Justice Blake found that British citizens have «a fundamental right of constitutional significance recognised by the common law» to live in their home country.

The Lords Bill is a measure of profound constitutional significance.

To celebrate the Canadian Constitution and the beauty of our country, we invite you to submit photo of a place of constitutional significance with the coordinates (GPS, Google Maps or other) and a brief explanation.

They're impatient with the idea of entitlement REFORM — mending, not ending, the key features of our minimalist safety net — because they think we live in REVOLUTIONARY times with high constitutional significance.

At the end, when there was no time for a third reading debate, he complained that this was the first time this had happened with a bill of constitutional significance since the Defence of the Realm Act in 1914.

This is just one of the many questions of constitutional significance which the Court is asked to address in Joined Cases C - 293 / 12 and C - 594 / 12.

The referendum on EU membership was on a supremely divisive issue on a matter of prime constitutional significance.

The courts should be particularly slow to find that the Royal Prerogative may be relied on in a manner cutting across primary legislation that had particular constitutional significance and status.

«The Lords Bill is a measure of profound constitutional significance... It threatens to pile a constitutional crisis on top of an economic crisis.

It is a right of constitutional significance,» he writes.

Democratic institutions are too prone to passion, prejudice, and foolishness for us to entrust to them matters of constitutional significance.

«The Lords bill is a measure of profound constitutional significance.

A minister proposing an LRO must demonstrate (Brief Guide: Delegated Legislation, House of Commons, 2011) that the proposed legislation is needed, is proportionate, represents a fair balance of interests, does not remove any necessary protection, does not unreasonably interfere with rights and freedoms, and has no constitutional significance.

All in all, despite the prominence of the principle of conferral in the Lisbon Treaty and the «constitutional significance» the Court attaches to it, the Court's most recent doctrine is not really clarifying how institutions should act when choosing the correct legal basis.

In an interim report on the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill, the House of Lords Constitution Committee has said that the «political, legal and constitutional significance of the Bill is unparalleled».

«Every New Zealander has the right to find out what information an agency holds about them,» he said, adding: «It is a right of constitutional significance, and even this week's Dotcom case noted that the right of individuals to access, challenge and to correct personal data is generally regarded as «perhaps the most important privacy protection safeguard».».