Can citizens sue their government ?

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JellySaurus · 10/09/2026 22:10

Can citizens take their government to court for passing bad laws?

I'm thinking, of course, of gender-woo laws, which destroy the rights of 51% of the population, and promote ill-health (both mental and physical).

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Hoardasurass · 11/09/2026 08:53

zanahoria · 11/09/2026 07:14

No they can only sue if government bodies do not.implement laws correcty, like what happened in Scotland.

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No you can take them to crt for a judicial review of new laws as was done in Scotland over the named person bill (it interfered with the right to a family life), the sectarian football chants bill and numerous others.
If a uk government creates a law that is discriminatory or breaches human rights laws then the people can take the government to crt and have the law struck down

zanahoria · 11/09/2026 07:14

No they can only sue if government bodies do not.implement laws correcty, like what happened in Scotland.

TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 11/09/2026 06:18

In the end only through the ballot box, any law can be repealed by a government. If a party campaigns on a platform to repeal a law gets in, they can strike it down but we can't hold the party who introduced the bad law in the first place legally responsible, unfortunately.
I do like the idea though, I have a list of grievances against this government and the last 10, I'd love to have a reckoning. 😂

theilltemperedmonster · 10/09/2026 23:02

You can apply to the Administrative Court (England and Wales High Court or Scottish equivalent) for a declaration of incompatibility with the HRA/ECHR, appealable all the way up to the ECtHR. If the ECtHR grants the declaration, the UK government will...

....ignore it, like they did about prisoners' right to vote.

Still, I do like to muse about how one would go about it. I reckon Articles 3, 8, 9,10 and 11 could all be in play.

Hoardasurass · 10/09/2026 22:36

You can bring a judicial review or laws in the uk and has resulted in several Scottish being revoked in the last decade

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