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This description is letting the politicians off the hook

"Last month, the lady chief justice criticised the prime minister for *rejecting a judgment* to which the government was a party, arguing that the proper way for ministers to challenge their defeats in the courts was through the appeal process."

Lady Carr in fact both the PM *and the Leader of the Opposition* for misrepresenting the judgment before attacking it, and attacking the judge. This is much more than rejecting a judgment (which is in itself not appropriate absent an appeal or declaration of intent to change the law)

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