... regarded as constitutional date back to the Magna Carta in 1215, which largely symbolizes the principles by which the government must be conducted according to law, with the consent of those that are governed. More recently the Human Rights Act in 1998 incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law, giving UK citizens a weakly formed Bill of Rights. Many other concepts of fundamental individual rights have been introduced by European Community law, providing constitutional rights by way of the European Community Act 1972. Common law may also provide sources of constitution, as the doctrine of precedent allows decisive principles of a judgement to become a binding authority in later cases. The case of Entick v. Carrington (1775) involved a situation where Entick had suffered the seizure of his private papers under a warrant, an action which was ruled to be unlawful as there was no law authorising the ...

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