| Ratio | Case Name | Year |
| Nothing inherently wrong with executive appointing judges on a full-life tenure | |
| UK parliament can legislate on foreign affairs, but the practical effect is useless. We must distinguish validity from enforceability | |
| The crown is a legal fiction to embody government | |
| Where judges have pecuniary interests, cases must be struck down | |
| Breaches of the 1707 Act of Union may be justiciable & amenable, but the principles of the AoU are fundamental and unalterable | |
| You may look at Hansard to help define unclear statutory terms | |
| Citizens can do anything besides what is illegal | |
| No Money Bills; Salisbury Doctrine; Extra procedure of passing bills after 2 loops in the Commons | |
| What are the precedents? Were they following a rule? Is there a reason behind the rule? | |
| Some conventions are justiciable, if you can use a law to support it | |
| Tenure 'ad vitum aut culpam' for judges | |
| Certain statutes are 'constitutional' and cannot be implicitly repealed | |
| When a prerogative power has been constitutionalised, then the power is bound to the statute | |
| The 1949 Parliament Act is valid | |
| Lord Diplock's criteria for judicial review | |
| In the case of incompatibility with convention law, the court cannot strike down a law, but it can refer it back to parliament for review | |
| We will always sidestep questions on the Acts of Union | |
| Race, religion, age, class and background is not bias | |
| You can apply for judicial review where A is given power over B, and abuses it | |
| Affirms the Claim of Right in Scotland. Judges can only be removed by both houses | |
| In practice, parliamentary sovereignty is affected by political factors | |
| Breach of convention is not justiciable | |
| You cannot use parliamentary records as evidence against someone | |
| It was said obiter that a handful of acts effectively limit parliamentary supremacy | |
| Existing prerogative powers can be adapted to cover new, novel situations | |