| Ratio | Case Name | Year |
| Lord Diplock's criteria for judicial review | |
| It was said obiter that a handful of acts effectively limit parliamentary supremacy | |
| Some conventions are justiciable, if you can use a law to support it | |
| Affirms the Claim of Right in Scotland. Judges can only be removed by both houses | |
| No Money Bills; Salisbury Doctrine; Extra procedure of passing bills after 2 loops in the Commons | |
| Freedom from civil arrest | |
| The UK Parliament supercedes the court. In Scotland is amenable to the court | |
| Breaches of the 1707 Act of Union may be justiciable & amenable, but the principles of the AoU are fundamental and unalterable | |
| Enrolled bill rule | |
| Bribery is not allowed by parliament, and is enforceable as a crime in parliament | |
| In practice, parliamentary sovereignty is affected by political factors | |
| Acts of Parliament cannot be illegal because Parliament make the law | |
| When a prerogative power has been constitutionalised, then the power is bound to the statute | |
| The test for bias is whether a reasonable man believes it would have been biased | |
| What are the precedents? Were they following a rule? Is there a reason behind the rule? | |
| The crown is a legal fiction to embody government | |
| Court cannot intervene in internal affairs of parliament | |
| By signing the EU treaty, and passing the 1972 EU act, parliament consented to be bound by EC derectives. Anything in contravention of these laws will be reinterpreted to bring it | |
| Tenure 'ad vitum aut culpam' for judges | |
| UK parliament can legislate on foreign affairs, but the practical effect is useless. We must distinguish validity from enforceability | |
| The 1949 Parliament Act is valid | |
| You cannot use parliamentary records as evidence against someone | |
| New privileges can only be created by statute | |
| Race, religion, age, class and background is not bias | |
| Even if there is a clause that a certain provision is not to be repealed, the same power which made that clause could repeal it | |