Parliamentary Supremacy and Internal Market Bill

Law Case

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Set out what is meant by critical discussion................................................................................3
Set out why this hypothetical question is relevant question in constitutional terms...................3
Construct a mind map of the issues the question presents..........................................................4
Provide an outline of how you plan to address this question in your Task 2..............................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
Introduction.................................................................................................................................5
Main Body...................................................................................................................................5
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................7
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
Internal Market Bill.....................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
The Constitution is that document which provides the rules which decide the UK's
political governance. The United Kingdom has the unwritten and uncodified Constitution which
is embodied in the special legislations passed by the Parliament of UK which takes special
constitutional status and the Supreme Court of UK has recognised the principles of constitution
in its precedents which includes rule of law, parliamentary supremacy, upholding international
law and the democracy1. The Parliamentary supremacy is one of the principle of the
Constitution of UK which gives supreme sovereignty to Parliament to enact any law which the
courts of UK also cannot challenge. This report is divided into three task, the first two shall
cover the hypothetical question on the concept of parliamentary sovereignty and the third task
shall deal with the internal market bill.
TASK 1
Set out what is meant by critical discussion
Parliament is the supreme authority which is entrusted with a duty to create any law or
end any legislation. It has the unlimited and absolute power to enact any law. The written
constitution often binds the Parliament to act in a certain way but the unwritten constitution of
UK makes the Parliament central to the states. The Parliament consists of House of Commons
and the House of Lords which has the joint power to create any law. This is power is so absolute
that the Courts of UK cannot question the validity of any law made by the Parliament2. Any law
whether it is a breach of rule or not, this right to create any law is absolute and no body or person
which is recognised by the laws of the England can over ride or set aside the said legislation.
Set out why this hypothetical question is relevant question in constitutional terms.
The Parliamentary supremacy is a principle of Constitution which is embodied in the
special Acts of Parliament and the court judgements. It is a relevant question because the
Parliament has the absolute power to make or unmake any law. This principle has got three
1 Tan S, 'Between Judicial Oligarchy And Parliamentary Supremacy: Understanding The
Court's Dilemma In Constitutional Judicial Review' [2016] SSRN Electronic Journal
2 Zucca L, 'Why (Constitutional) Law Matters: A Debate' (2016) 13 International Journal
of Constitutional Law