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Farrah Ahmed: Strategy and Subterfuge? Assessing the ‘New’ Judicial Power

Farrah Ahmed: Strategy and Subterfuge? Assessing the ‘New’ Judicial Power

2 Feb 2017 | ALBA Papers on Judicial Activism, Posts, Publications: ALBA Papers on Judicial Activism

Part of our series on “Debating Judicial Power: Papers from the ALBA Summer Conference”. In his new paper, Richard Ekins offers an ambitious and wide-ranging narrative of judicial power. He argues that a ‘new understanding’ of judicial power is ascendant. He seeks to...
Richard Ekins: The Dynamics of Judicial Power

Richard Ekins: The Dynamics of Judicial Power

1 Feb 2017 | ALBA Papers on Judicial Activism, Posts, Publications: ALBA Papers on Judicial Activism

Judicial power in the new UK constitution is on the rise.  This is hardly a remarkable claim: Lord Neuberger and Lady Hale, for example, each take the expansion of judicial power to be an undeniable feature of the change over time in our governing arrangements.  In a...
Maya Lester: The “Rogue” European Court in the Campaign for Brexit

Maya Lester: The “Rogue” European Court in the Campaign for Brexit

15 Dec 2016 | ALBA Papers on Judicial Activism, Posts, Publications, Publications: ALBA Papers on Judicial Activism

In the third part of our series on Debating Judicial Power: Papers from the ALBA Summer Conference, Maya Lester QC from Brick Court Chambers writes on ‘The “Rogue” European Court in the Campaign for Brexit’. With debate about judicial activism playing a...
Christopher Forsyth: Who is the ultimate guardian of the constitution?

Christopher Forsyth: Who is the ultimate guardian of the constitution?

13 Dec 2016 | ALBA Papers on Judicial Activism, Posts, Publications, Publications: ALBA Papers on Judicial Activism

Part of our series on “Debating Judicial Power: Papers from the ALBA Summer Conference”. A pdf version of this post can be found here. 1. Sir John Laws writes, whether on or off the bench, with brilliance and brio. He presents an apparently utterly persuasive account...
Maya Lester: The “Rogue” European Court in the Campaign for Brexit

Sir John Laws: Judicial Activism

12 Dec 2016 | ALBA Papers on Judicial Activism, Posts, Publications, Publications: ALBA Papers on Judicial Activism

Download John Laws paper Christopher Forsyth reply In the second part of our series on Debating Judicial Power: Papers from the ALBA Summer Conference, Sir John Laws, who served from 1999-2016 as a Lord Justice of Appeal, shares his thoughts on “Judicial Activism”,...
Christopher Forsyth: Who is the ultimate guardian of the constitution?

John Finnis: Two Too Many?

24 Nov 2016 | ALBA Papers on Judicial Activism, Posts, Publications, Publications: ALBA Papers on Judicial Activism, Publications: Critiquing Judicial Power

Part of our series on “Debating Judicial Power: Papers from the ALBA Summer Conference”. A pdf version of this post can be found here. These brief marginal comments on Dame Elisabeth Laing’s interesting, important, and enviably readable “shop floor” reflections in her...
Maya Lester: The “Rogue” European Court in the Campaign for Brexit

Elisabeth Laing: Two Cheers for Judicial Activism

22 Nov 2016 | ALBA Papers on Judicial Activism, Posts, Publications, Publications: ALBA Papers on Judicial Activism

Download Elisabeth Laing paper John Finnis reply Today we launch this series with a paper by High Court judge Dame Elisabeth Laing entitled ‘Two Cheers for Judicial Activism’. The premise of the paper is that ‘there is a thing, which for want of a better label, we can...

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