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It's worth reading Lord Neuberger's speech in full. There's a link in the article above. It is a speech, not an academic paper, and it therefore includes lighter moments: for example para 23 discusses robes in the Supreme Court, and para 24 comments on the Trip Advisor rating the Supreme Court received. More substantively, Lord Neuberger comments in para 44 that justice is "in something of a perfect storm", and that as a society we are "increasingly concerned with due process" (which I take as a polite reference to the Hydra of the CPR and Sir Rupert Jackson's proposed further reforms).

Lord Neuberger did also say that the rule of law "is one of the two pillars of a decent modern society. Freedom of expression, freedom from oppression, freedom of conscience, access to justice, and all the other rights we hold so dear all flow from democracy and the rule of law."

Do any of us disagree with that?

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