... legal restraint on the scope of Parliament's power. Dicey's third point on the matter that courts cannot challenge the law made by Parliament is illustrated in the case of British Railway Board V Pickins (1974), this case was held in the House of Lords. In 1969 Pickins brought a land where a railway line passed, the Private Act 1838 and 1843 endorsed that if the railway was to become abandon, the owner tp that land have the full firm legal right to have the land back. However, in 1968 anothor Private Act was passed promoted by British Railway Board that to abolish the 1838 and 1843 Act. Pickins sued on the basis that BRB fraudulently misled the House of Parliament when the 1968 Act was passed. This case was held that the courts do not have the power to examine the mode in which the Act was passed and that ...

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