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The Rule of Law and a Change in the Constitution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2004

Lord Woolf
Lord Woolf*
Affiliation:
Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
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Abstract

Very substantial constitutional changes have been introduced or announced by the present Government. The article discusses these critically from the point of view of the senior judiciary.

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The Cambridge Law Journal , Volume 63 , Issue 2 , 18 June 2004 , pp. 317 - 330
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Copyright © The Cambridge Law Journal and Contributors 2004

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Footnotes

The Squire Centenary Lecture, delivered in the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, 3 March 2004.

References

1 R. v. A (No. 2) [2002] 1 A.C. 45, at [108].

2 Stevens, R., The English Judges: Their Role in the Changing Constitution (Oxford 2002), p. xiii.Google Scholar

3 Woolf, H. ‘Judicial Review—the Tensions between the Executive and the Judiciary’ (1998) 114 L.Q.R. 579, 582.Google Scholar

4 Constitutional Affairs Committee, Asylum and Immigration Appeals, Second Report, para. 70.

5 Raymond v. Honey [1983] 1 A.C. 1.