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EVALUATE THE VIEW THAT THE SUPREME COURT IS NOW TOO INFLUENTIAL OVER THE…
EVALUATE THE VIEW THAT THE SUPREME COURT IS NOW TOO INFLUENTIAL OVER THE WORK OF PARLIAMENT AND GOVERNMENT
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Governments can achieve elective dictatorships due to parliamentary sovereignty, and judges can't stop them.
As a result, govt bills virtually always pass under an elective dictatorship.
For example, in 1997 Labour had a majority of 179, and between 1997 and 2005 suffered very few parliamentary defeats, even for measures that were generally controversial.
An elective dictatorship is when parl is dominated by the current govt, and is further compounded by an absence of a codified constitution in the UK.
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The govt has announced more details on plans to 'rebalance power between judges and politicians'. This will make it easier for Parl to overrule judges' decisions. However, in practice this doesn't change much, as they could do that anyway (parliamentary sovereignty). This just formalises it, and is therefore arguably just 'for show'.