By Stephen Sedley
ISBN-10: 1107122287
ISBN-13: 9781107122284
ISBN-10: 1107559766
ISBN-13: 9781107559769
Francis Bacon wrote in 1625 that judges has to be lions, yet lions below the throne. From that day to this, the strain in the kingdom among parliamentary, judicial and govt strength has remained unresolved. Lions lower than the Throne is the 1st systematic account of the origins and improvement of the nice physique of public legislation wherein the nation, either institutionally and when it comes to the person, is ruled.
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Lions in winter 37 and large from the same social and educational backgrounds as a judiciary which was still appointed by the Lord Chancellor after private consultation with, among others, his own permanent secretary. Some – Schuster himself for example – were members of the Inns of Court and might perfectly well have become judges. Not only the backgrounds but the social milieux of the two groups were now much the same. 52 Since the point of joining a London club was (as it still is) to socialise with other “clubbable” individuals in conditions of familiarity and confidentiality, it was to be expected that many of Whitehall’s current and upcoming permanent secretaries would also be members.
R v. Greater Manchester Coroner, ex p Tal [1985] QB 67. R v. 71 Since Mr Ridge had had a very full hearing before the judge and jury who cleared him of conspiracy to obstruct the course of justice, after which the judge had commented acidly on his leadership of the Brighton constabulary, and since Mr Ridge’s solicitor had thereafter been allowed to try to persuade the watch committee to change its mind, and since Mr Ridge had then been able to appeal directly to the Home Secretary, the case might have been regarded as rather weaker than Mr Arlidge’s half a century earlier.
He must call his own attention to the matters which he is bound to consider. He must exclude from his consideration matters which are irrelevant to what he has to consider. . ” Lord Greene then used the reductio ad absurdum (picking on people with red hair) used by Warrington LJ in Short v. Poole Corporation, a case which prefigured the supine jurisprudence of Wednesbury: see subhead “Judicial acquiescence” and n. 33 below. See the sources cited in M. 3; cf. 1. See also Ch. 7. In 1993 Professor J.