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roleforjudges.
Recent changes in Constitution made impact for judges to be more involved in political roles. There
have been numbers of recent constitutional development such as the Human Rights Act which
allows the Judiciary to work with other parts of government such as the Executive and the
Legislature who have to power to create,amend and change laws. The Human Rights Acts in 1998
has include the articles of the European Convection on Human Rights into the UK law. The Human
Rights Acts allow judges to revise law to a certain extend as the Human Rights Acts is codified law
in the UK constitution. It could be debate that Judiciary use the Human Rights Acts to benefit them
in gaining more power in government which gives them more authority and make them become
more involved in political role.
Judiciary review is another power that Judges got. It is the ability to review a law or an official act of
government made by the parliament. Judiciary review acts like checks and balances which
prevents the executive in having too much power. Even though judges can not overturn or strike
down laws that is passed by the parliament, they have to authority to challenge the government
and make suggestions. There are few occasion which the government and judges debate against
each other. One of the example is with Labours party campaign of building school for the future
under Tonys Blaire government. Michael Gove who is the education secretary in the conservative
decide to ban this campaign when the campaign is already on going. The High Court decided to
turn against Michael Gove and tell him to rethink about stopping this campaign again.He was told
by the judge of making bad decisions and step over the role of his barrier. In the end, this campaign
was successful and the government won. This events suggests that the role of judges are
becoming more involved in politics.
On the other hand the constitutional reform act in 2005 has bought to separation of power which
splits judicially and politics. An example of the constitutional reform act is the role of Lord
Chancellor to be separate from the government and the executive to allow them to make decisions
base on the law and not politics. This allows different branches of government to have clear and
separate roles which lead to the independence of judiciary.
Before 2005, judiciary and role of the executive worked together as a team within the Parliament
and many decisions made by the judiciary were influence by members of Parliament. However, the
CRA acts set up the Supreme Court in Middlesex Guildhall. This allows judiciary independent
power and less influence from other branches of government. These constitution changes has
contribute the judiciary to be less influenced and involved by politics
In conclusion, the new constitution mades judges more involved with politics to some extend where
they are able to exercise more power through the Human Rights Acts and also Judiciary reviews
which acts like checks and balances towards the government. On the other hand, judges are
independent and they review things under the rule of law. The change in constitution allow them to
be separate from the parliament by setting up a Supreme Court. However, on the whole the
development of constitution have led to an increasingly political role for judges more than it did to
prevent judges involvement in politics.