Tag: Lord Neuberger
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Conor Gearty: On Fantasy Island: British politics, English judges and the European Convention on Human Rights
My first encounter with the fantasies that underpin English public law came in the 1980s. I had just starting teaching constitutional law and was taking my first year students through Dicey: the independent rule of law; the availability of remedies to all, without fear or favour; the common law’s marvellous protection of civil liberties; how…