Clipping the judges’ wings
What effect might government plans have on human rights?
Senior judges say there’s no need to change the Human Rights Act. But what could they do if the government undermines human rights and judicial review?
My latest column in the Law Society Gazette is free to read here. It concentrates on the second of two reviews ordered by the lord chancellor, Robert Buckland.
Update 18 February: evidence submitted to th…
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