Significantly in recent years, one of the most notable trends in constitutional law has been a resurgence in interest and emphasis by the higher judiciary on what has come to be called ‘common law constitutionalism’. This is the idea the common law is developing as an organic body of law which serves to protect individual rights and to uphold key principles, such as fairness, access to justice and accountability of government, effectively in tandem with the more formal rights associated with the European Convention.