... Sir Ivor Jennings statement that, "If parliament enacted that all men should be women, they would be women so far as the law is concerned," indicates the extent of parliaments sovereignty. Parliament's supremacy is upheld by the fact that no parliament is bound by the decisions of its predecessors and means new and improved law can be implemented. An authority for this is the case of Ellen Street Estates Ltd v Minister of Health (1934).2 The British government is made up of three organs of state. These are the Executive, the Legislature (House of Commons, House of Lords and Monarch i.e. parliament), and the Judiciary. It has been shown over the years that the judiciary is totally unwilling to question the legitimacy of statutes unless there is some question as to them not being passed using the correct procedure. As long as an Act has passed through both Houses and ...

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