Judges are supposed to be Parliament’s faithful agents seeking to implement its objectives, rather than joint law-makers. It is difficult to see how that judicial mission might be reconciled with the fundamental principle that it is elected representatives who make laws

There was a time, now fading from memory, when laws were made by legislatures. Today, look not to elected representatives for the setting of laws, but to the judges whose keen eye for identifying formerly unrecognised "rights" would appear to be boundless