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RELATIONS BETWEEN BRANCHES - Evaluate the view that the UK judiciary are…

- - - - EG: The ruling against Blair's derogation of the human rights act to pass human rights legislation, which was deemed unlawful the same year it was passed
        
        If a PM is acting ultra virus, their decision can be ruled null and void, such was the case with Johnson's prerogation case
        
        Judges thus no longer in this sense see themselves as subordinate to parliament
- - - - The court experiences most of its power in setting precedent
    - - The House of Lords effectively abolished the marital rape exemption in the landmark case of R v R in 1991. The ruling, which determined that a husband could be criminally liable for raping his wife, was later affirmed by the European Court of Human Rights and solidified in statute by the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.
- - - - The law lords, who used to judge from an appellate committee within the House of Lords, were working from very little independence, and thus were more likely to work in the favour of the courts
        
        Since the constitutional reform act 2005, the supreme court has no roots in the commons and thus cannot be influenced in such a way
    - - However, it would be incredibly controversial if they did so - effectively they wouldn't and then and have little power in such a sense