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Recent Blogs
Richard Ekins in The Spectator: ‘A guide to the Supreme Court justices’
Writing for The Spectator, Richard Ekins — head of Policy Exchange’s Judicial Power Project — discusses the ways in which the eleven justices ‘differ in philosophy, temperament and in how they understand their role’
VIDEO: ‘Parliament and the Prerogative: From the Case of Proclamations to Miller’
Watch Timothy Endicott, Professor of Legal Philosophy in the University of Oxford, speak at Policy Exchange about the royal prerogative and why its use by the Government to trigger Article 50 should be defended
The UK could simultaneously negotiate four or five Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) after Brexit
Geoff Raby — Policy Exchange’s Head of Trade Policy — and Peter Grey discuss processes for negotiating trade agreements
Media coverage of Policy Exchange’s panel on ‘Criticism and Accountability in Judging’
Conservative Home: “Policy Exchange, with its Judicial Power Project, is setting the pace. Others need to keep up.” Recent controversy on judging the legality of Brexit and the role the media should play in holding the judiciary to account was at the centre of...
VIDEO: Criticism and Accountability in Judging
Next month the Supreme Court will hear the Government’s appeal in the Miller judgment. The backdrop to that hearing is unusually heated: earlier this month, press and politicians reacted strongly to the High Court’s decision. Retired judges, lawyers and political...
A Tale of Two Constitutional Duties: Liz Truss, Lady Hale, and Miller
A great deal has been written about the High Court’s judgment in Miller, some of it on the Judicial Power Project website. The importance of Miller, and the intensity of the reactions that the judgment has provoked, can be seen in the separate controversies over Liz...
Symbolism and Reality in Geopolitics
Rebecca Lowe Coulson, Policy Exchange’s State and Society Research Fellow, reflects on the recent Policy Exchange event on Tim Marshall’s new book about the power and politics of flags
The UK Public Finances: A Lengthy but Necessary Repair
Warwick Lightfood, Policy Exchange’s Head of Research and Social Policy, explains why ‘a budget should be a political vision with numbers attached to it’
During a debate on the phenomenon of “lawfare” against the British armed services, five members of the House of Lords reference Policy Exchange’s seminal work in this area
References made included those by the former Supreme Court Justice, Lord Brown of Eaton-Under-Heywood, who proposed the motion, as well as General Lord Richards, Lord Bilimoria, and Lord Stirrup
Judicial Power Project: Dame Elisabeth Laing’s ‘Two Cheers for Judicial Activism’
This paper was given at the Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association (‘ALBA’) summer conference, held in Cambridge in July 2016
