Judges should leave law reform to MPs

According to The Independent, Baroness Hale of Richmond, who was appointed to the House of Lords this year, said judges were \'unaccountable to the electorate\' and their decision-making processes were \'exclusionary\'. Delivering the Independent and Law Reform Committee lecture in London, Lady Hale said judges \'were not well-equipped to determine public policy debates\'. She warned: \'If judges rely on their own perceptions of the policy debate, they may be leaving out whole swaths of the argument which others might draw to their attention.\' Full report by The Independent