Comment by HPsquared
16 days ago
Judges only interpret the law as laid down by parliament. And, in theory at least, parliament cares about public opinion.
16 days ago
Judges only interpret the law as laid down by parliament. And, in theory at least, parliament cares about public opinion.
Even to the extent that parliament does care — and both this lot and their predecessors have ignored a lot of criticism about this specific law — turning public disfavour into a change to the law is often a slow process.
I don't see UK judges getting motivated to rule in favour of a foreign company because they took their ball and went home, not even in cases where the ball happens to be very popular.