Parliament’s power to revoke any court decision is woefully under-utilised, says Dr Michael Arnheim
Shortly before his retirement as president of the UK Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger sounded a salutary warning, which, however, has gone almost totally unnoticed. He concluded his 2017 Neill Lecture to the Oxford Law Faculty with these words: ‘[I]n a speech concerned with the role of judges under a constitutional system based on Parliamentary sovereignty, it is perhaps appropriate to end with a reminder that any judicial decision can be revoked by Parliament through a statute.’