Feature: “Judicial Independence in the UK & USA”

John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (1820 – 1894) engraved by Eden Upton Eddis. Source: Wikemedia Commons

By ANN LYON In recent days there has been heavy criticism of the three justices who heard the judicial review in R (on the application of Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, largely on the basis that allegations that they have gone against democracy and applied their personal bias in favour… Continue reading Feature: “Judicial Independence in the UK & USA”

Feature: “For the preservation of our rights and liberties: The Judiciary in the Long Nineteenth-Century and Now”

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By ANN LYON and JAMES GREGORY The political history of the British ‘long nineteenth-century’ is characterised by debates about the constitution in which parliamentary reform – the extension of the parliamentary franchise, the redrawing of constituencies, the power of the House of Lords, prominently figure. The judicial bench were recognised to have a political role… Continue reading Feature: “For the preservation of our rights and liberties: The Judiciary in the Long Nineteenth-Century and Now”