A Boundary Where There Is None
Stephen Sedley: In Time of Meltdown, 12 September 2019
Trials of the State: Law and the Decline of Politics
by Jonathan Sumption.
Profile, 128 pp., £9.99, August 2019,978 1 78816 372 9 Show More
by Jonathan Sumption.
Profile, 128 pp., £9.99, August 2019,
“... has for a long time been the view of a neoliberal school of legal thought; but the argument of Jonathan Sumption’s 2019 Reith Lectures, delivered in May and June and now issued in book form, is more accommodating. It is that while law and due process have their place, they owe considerably more respect to the political process than the UK’s courts have ... ”