This week, constitutional law! When can the Governor of a British Overseas Territory just write and enact a law? When can the King? How does this extreme power for the Crown to just make laws fit into the constitutional framework of overseas territories? And what exactly does ‘external affairs’ mean?

Link to Case: [2025] UKPC 30, Cay

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This week, a question about the boundaries of judicial review: should a court engage in hypothetical review of a statute even if no one can demonstrate injury? What is the function of a declaration of incompatibility? The case might be about hypotheticals, but the fun of analysing it is real!

Link to Case: [2025] UKPC 22, Cay

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This week, it’s question of tax law from Trinidad & Tobago! What does it mean to be an ‘artificial’ or ‘fictitious’ transaction? Plus, my usual grumbling about how slow some tax cases are to make it to the Board.

Link to Case: [2025] UKPC 20, T&T

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