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Also recall the high-profile, politically-charged cases which the Government has lost (to its considerable embarrassment) in recent memory.
by jfk13 6y ago
Also recall the high-profile, politically-charged cases which the Government has lost (to its considerable embarrassment) in recent memory.
- JAlexoid 6y agoGovernment isn't the parliament. No court in the UK has ever overruled the parliament.
- spiralx 6y agoBecause one of the key parts of UK law is the principle of parliamentary sovereignty - that parliament is the ultimate source of legal authority. The court cannot overrule parliament by definition, in the same way SCOTUS cannot overrule the Constitution.