Comments on: Law Lords move to Supreme Court http://scotslawstudent.com/2009/07/23/law-lords-move-to-supreme-court/ The SLS : Life and trials of learning law in Scotland Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:38:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Oliver Smith http://scotslawstudent.com/2009/07/23/law-lords-move-to-supreme-court/#comment-123 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:34:50 +0000 http://scotslawstudent.com/?p=340#comment-123 That could be an idea…or we could just go the whole way and have massive constitutional reform with a written constitution, full seperation of powers and a full set of checks and balances to ensure that no one of the judiciary, executive and lesgislature is or can become too powerful.

]]> By: scotslawstudent http://scotslawstudent.com/2009/07/23/law-lords-move-to-supreme-court/#comment-122 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:59:13 +0000 http://scotslawstudent.com/?p=340#comment-122 This is true and I think I might come to prefer “The Supreme Court” to “The Appellate Committee of the House of Lords” as a highest court. Blackadder certainly ruined the Privy Council for me.

I quite like having senior judges reading Bills, so I hope they continue to analyse statute that’s yet to be approved. I believe it was Lord Hope who pointed out that issue with the Scotland Bill a few posts back so maybe separation of powers but also sending legislators on tougher statutory interpretation courses is the right twin course of action.

]]> By: Oliver Smith http://scotslawstudent.com/2009/07/23/law-lords-move-to-supreme-court/#comment-121 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:06:22 +0000 http://scotslawstudent.com/?p=340#comment-121 It’s really just a strengthening of the seperation of powers doctine, which is never a bad thing.

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