Report comment

I am becoming increasingly disturbed by the role taken by the senior judiciary not only in interpreting the law and suggest procedural and technical improvements, but also in stamping their own 'progressive' moral code onto society. These virtue-signalling pronouncements on moral and ethical matters are unhelpful and offensive to many of us who believe that marriage is a special kind of contract for life that, as with any other binding agreement, ought not to be broken unless there is good cause, in this case as defined by Parliament.
Nothing in marriage (or more properly-called divorce) legislation, the Human Rights Act or judicial convention allows the senior Court to opine as to the morality of Parliamentary decisions in such a manner. It takes their Lordships very far from their remit as an independent arbiter of fact and interpreter of the law.
It becomes more difficult by the day to uphold one's duty to the Court when the senior judiciary do not appear to uphold their own.