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Trust in the courts

Top judge explains how judiciary should act in an age of populism

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Joshua Rozenberg
Jun 16, 2025
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The United Kingdom’s most senior judge has rejected claims that judges “interfere unwarrantably in the democratic process” and that their decisions are based on applying “values which are not shared by parliament or the general public”.

Lord Reed of Allermuir said that criticism of this sort “fails either to understand, or at least to acknowledge, that j…

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