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 Show More
by Joshua Rozenberg.
Richard Cohen, 241 pp., £17.99, April 1997,
The Politics of the Judiciary
by J.A.G. Griffith.
Fontana, 376 pp., £8.99, September 1997,0 00 686381 7 Show More
by J.A.G. Griffith.
Fontana, 376 pp., £8.99, September 1997,
“... are the obvious people to intervene wherever ‘dysfunctions in the democratic process’ emerge. Joshua Rozenberg tells the story of the ‘trial of strength’ – ‘petulant squabble’ might have been more accurate – between the judges and Tory ministers in the final years of the Major Administration. At huge length he regurgitates the argument ... ”