ECtHR judges must spend a significant amount of time rubber-stamping the (often mediocre) copy-and-pasted work of registry lawyers. I'm not surprised there are few takers amongst the UK judiciary, nobody with any fondness for common law would be able to stomach it for long.
“unequivocally committed to [the ECHR] and by extension ……” With a recalcitrant grandson to get out of bed and off to college (his Colonial History Professor Corinne Fowler in Ghana on academic duties) and with a thick layer of snow here in Brum, how uplifting it is to read of the Appointments Council using those resounding words and - as I believe - with a conviction shared by this Starmer government. Bumpy ride already since the fourth of July? We- and the current administration- ain’t seen nothing yet and that is when keeping to that irreducible commitment will become more problematic for it. And as to the day to day and vital “business” of governance that must continue, whatever disturbing developments there may be, domestically and internationally. We have surely so many of us “been there, and bought the t-shirt” in one representative capacity or another. At whatever lowly or lofty level that might have been or indeed might still be for some, there is the (sometimes) sombre duty to carry on carrying on.
ECtHR judges must spend a significant amount of time rubber-stamping the (often mediocre) copy-and-pasted work of registry lawyers. I'm not surprised there are few takers amongst the UK judiciary, nobody with any fondness for common law would be able to stomach it for long.
Interesting point. I don't suppose Judge Eicke will feel able to comment on this until he stands down, if then.
“unequivocally committed to [the ECHR] and by extension ……” With a recalcitrant grandson to get out of bed and off to college (his Colonial History Professor Corinne Fowler in Ghana on academic duties) and with a thick layer of snow here in Brum, how uplifting it is to read of the Appointments Council using those resounding words and - as I believe - with a conviction shared by this Starmer government. Bumpy ride already since the fourth of July? We- and the current administration- ain’t seen nothing yet and that is when keeping to that irreducible commitment will become more problematic for it. And as to the day to day and vital “business” of governance that must continue, whatever disturbing developments there may be, domestically and internationally. We have surely so many of us “been there, and bought the t-shirt” in one representative capacity or another. At whatever lowly or lofty level that might have been or indeed might still be for some, there is the (sometimes) sombre duty to carry on carrying on.