Well you'll never stop lawyers suing people (or the government). That is another traditional concept in our legal and political system. Maybe the fact the judiciary is so underfunded and therefo… (View Post)

I wouldn't support the Supreme Court trying to strike down clear primary legislation, and I don't think they would anyway. Obiter remarks in judgments like this are often curious but amount… (View Post)

@Luckyguy1983 Parliament can simply pass primary legislation to instruct the courts on how to deal with these situations without taking away rights from everyone else. That is the point of Parliament… (View Post)

Our democratically elected Parliament voluntarily applied its rulings to this country, in certain circumstances. That is democratic and it is accountable. If Parliament didn't want the human rig… (View Post)

Then there was Lord Mansfield in Somerset v Stewart in 1772 who famously decided that slavery had no basis in English law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_v_Stewart There is a great film about… (View Post)