Lord Reed also warns against US-style selection of judges based on their political views
Judges are not staging a power grab to take over parliament’s role and do not make up law “as we go along”, the new president of the supreme court has told a parliamentary committee.
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In a robust defence of judicial independence in the face of government plans to change the UK’s constitution, Lord Reed of Allermuir warned that US-style confirmation hearings to select judges on the basis of their political views would be “really intolerable”.