Richard Ekins, Head of Policy Exchange’s Judicial Power Project, addresses the way in which Lord Neuberger — the outgoing President of the Supreme Court — has called for Parliament to tell our judges very clearly how rulings of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) are to be dealt with after Brexit.

Richard Ekins — Head of Policy Exchange’s Judicial Power Project — responds to news that the question of whether assisted suicide should be legalised is back before the courts, in an article for The Spectator. Ekins contends that the argument in the High Court this week is likely to focus on whether it is possible to design a system that permits assisted suicide without endangering the vulnerable, which he claims is ‘not a sensible question for a court to be asked to decide’. He conclude that ‘this continuing attempt to use the courts, with the encouragement of some (but certainly not all) judges, to usurp Parliament’s freedom to decide what the law should be is a constitutional travesty’.

Richard Ekins – Head of Policy Exchange’s Judicial Power Project — considers the Labour Party’s objection to the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill’s provision that the Charter of Fundamental Rights will cease to have effect on ‘exit day’. He finds the party’s newfound enthusiasm for the Charter hard to square with its nature or history, arguing that its ‘removal from our law should be welcomed, regardless of one’s views on Brexit’.