Don’t mess with the judges

They know which reforms work and which won’t

A former justice of the Supreme Court has told the government it has put forward “muddled and inconclusive” reasons for seeking to limit the powers of the courts.

Lord Carnwath, who retired in 2020 after eight years on the UK’s highest court, also accused the lord chancellor, Robert Buckland, of misquoting Lady Hale in support of his proposed reforms.

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