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THE JUDGES' DILEMMA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2009

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1 Lord Bingham of Cornhill, ‘The Rule of Law’ [2007] CLJ 67.

2 ibid 75.

3 GB Shaw, ‘Preface on Doctors’ in The Doctor's Dilemma: A Tragedy (Penguin, London, 1913).

4 Criminal Justice Act 2003 (UK) s 225.

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7 Baroness Hale of Richmond, ‘Law Lords at the Margins’ JUSTICE: Tom Sargant Memorial Annual Lecture, 15 October 2008.

8 R (Al-Jedda) v Secretary of State for Defence [2008] AC 332.

9 para 125.

10 A v Secretary of State for the Home Department (No 2) [2006] 2 AC 221.

11 Supreme Court of Israel, sitting as the High Court of Justice, HC 5100/94 and others, 6 September 1999.

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13 para 39.

14 In re G (Adoption: Unmarried Couple) [2009] 1 AC 173.

15 N v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2005] 2 AC 296.

16 D v United Kingdom [1997] 24 EHRR 423.

17 F v United Kingdom (application no. 17341/03, 22 June 2004).

18 Z and T v United Kingdom (application no. 27034/05, 28 February 2006).

19 EM (Lebanon) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] 3 WLR 931 (HL).

20 [2006] EWCA Civ 1531, para 69.

21 Soering v United Kingdom (1989) 11 EHRR 439, para 111.

22 R (Ullah) v Special Adjudicator [2004] 2 AC 323, para 24.

23 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990, Schedule 3, para 6(3).

24 Evans v Amicus Healthcare Ltd [2004] QB.

25 Evans v United Kingdom (2008) 46 EHRR 34.

26 para 73.

27 As Lord Hoffmann recognized in Secretary of State for the Home Department v MB [2008] AC 440.

28 See Chahal v United Kingdom (1996) EHRR 413.

29 Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act 1997, section 6.

30 [2004] 2 AC, para 20; see also Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood in R (Al-Skeini) v Secretary of State for Defence [2007] 1 AC 153, para 106.

31 See Van Colle v Chief Constable of the Hertfordshire Police [2009] 1 AC 224.

32 The Rt Hon Lady Justice Arden, ‘Building a Better Society’ JUSTICE 10th Annual Human Rights Law Conference, 21 October 2008.