果冻影院

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Chair: (Justice of the Supreme Court)

About the lecture

The Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill 2023-24 has brought the use of legal fiction into prominence and public debate. It will not be the subject of this lecture. Rather, amidst multiple uses of legal fiction, varying in ends and means, the lecture will consider the role, working and comparability of legal fiction in the two basic but disparate areas of legality and liability in English public law. The traditional centre of the first area has been Dicey鈥檚, or the Diceyan, doctrine of Parliament鈥檚 unlimited or absolute legislative sovereignty in English constitutional law. A significant source of controversy in the second area has been the liability in negligence of public authorities for omissions (as commonly understood) in the English law of torts. In these two areas, both fiction and using the concept of fiction will be examined for real or potential utility, detriment and constitutional significance.

About the speaker

John Allison is Professor of Public Law and Comparative Historical Jurisprudence, University of Cambridge. Before being appointed initially to a Lectureship at the University of Cambridge, he held Lectureships at Queen Mary College, the University of Cape Town and the University of Chicago.

Main publications:

(1)听A Continental Distinction in the Common Law: A Historical and Comparative Perspective on English Public Law听(Oxford University Press, pbk edn, 2000)

(2)听The English Historical Constitution: Continuity, Change and European Effects听(Cambridge University Press, 2007)

(3) Editor,听The Oxford Edition of Dicey, 2 vols (The Law of the Constitution, variorum edition, vol. 1;听Comparative Constitutionalism, vol. 2; Oxford University Press, pbk edn, 2019)

(4) 鈥淗istory to Understand, and History to Reform, English Public Law鈥� [2013] CLJ 526 (republished in P. Daly and J. Tomlinson (eds),听Researching Public Law in Common Law Systems听(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023), pp. 25-57)

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