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Wigs and Tories

Paul Foot, 18 September 1997

Trial of Strength: The Battle Between Ministers and Judges over Who Makes the Law 
by Joshua Rozenberg.
Richard Cohen, 241 pp., £17.99, April 1997, 1 86066 094 0
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The Politics of the Judiciary 
by J.A.G. Griffith.
Fontana, 376 pp., £8.99, September 1997, 0 00 686381 7
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... What a relief that Rozenberg’s book was followed so quickly by the fifth edition of John Griffith’s classic, The Politics of the Judiciary, and to see Woolf’s pompous dictum written off for what it is – ‘a pleasing conceit’. Griffith explains that the notion of a balance of power between legislature and ...

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Matt Foot: Rejected Appeals, 24 September 2026

... whether Andy Burnham’s government will proceed with these changes). Fifty years ago, J.A.G. Griffith argued in Politics of the Judiciary that senior judges were not entirely impartial. They were predominantly in late middle age, white, male and educated at public schools, a background that meant they had a conservative bias and would tend to favour the ...

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