What is going on with the top judges in Britain? They sure seem hell bent on travelling as quickly as they can down the judicial activism road. Consider Baroness Hale, last year announced as the first woman to become President of the UK Supreme Court.
This is the same judge who had opted, in a public lecture in Kuala Lumpur in 2016, to discuss the hugely important ‘Brexit’ case about whether the UK government could give notice to leave the European Union as an exercise of executive prerogative, and so ultimately repeal the European Communities Act 1972, or would instead have...
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