Those more recent references are what I'm interested in. When (if?) I have some time I'll search through your previous posts for references.Sim G wrote:As for a source that says Parliament cannot repeal the BoR, regardless of when it was written, but the Act itself! It's still there in the list of UK Primary Legislation in force! There is elsewhere here on this forum I've listed attempts at firearms legislation that have failed to be passed in the House because of the BoR as noted in Hansard. Likewise, there is reams of the stuff relating to other aspects of law and legislation where the BoR has been cited. The Rt Hon Betty Boothroyd, when Speaker of the House made reference to the BoR regularly as the cornerstone of British Parliamentary democracy.
My point re Harris and Deegan was not about the BoR specifically, but the fact that how you or I interpret the law doesn't really matter - it's the interpretation of judges (etc) that matters. If a knife that folds and is commonly called a "folding knife" is found not to not be a folding knife, then I have no confidence that my reading of the law will match with a judge's, however clear the law seems. Hence my interest in recent findings/precedents/etc over just reading the statute.
