Many in the legal profession criticised government ministers for not rushing to the defence of judges under fire during the Article 50 case debacle last year. Yet If the judiciary is to be truly independent of the executive, is it appropriate for government ministers to come to its aid? Perhaps, judges should fight their own corner?
Writing in NLJ this week, barristers Charles Auld, St John’s Chambers, and Kate Harrington, Magdalen Chambers, say there has been ‘a slow by recognisable change’ in the relationship between executive and judiciary since the Second World War, and argue that judges should have a ‘greater cross-section of experience’.
