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When the judge is an ass

The judiciary have apparently published a report on super injunctions.

Perhaps we should be pathetically grateful that their Lordships have allowed the rest of us to even mention the fact. 

It looks increasingly to me as though our judiciary – high on the power they've been able to assume under Human Rights rules - have become a law unto themselves. No more do their Lordships adjudicate on the basis of what the legislation passed by our elected law-makers actually says. Instead they prefer to cite all manner of charters and international conventions to tell us what the law ought to be.

I am less bothered by this when it comes to deciding who can say what about the private lives of footballers. I mind very much when it prevents successive elected governments from curtailing large scale immigration into Britain. Or deploying effective sanctions against criminals.   

Senior judges are apparently to meet with Commons Speaker, John Bercow, to complain that various MPs have made their Lordships rulings look ridiculous. Bercow should remind them that the Commons is elected – and it is their Lordships appetite for self-aggrandisement that has left them looking asinine.

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