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Judiciary are working side by side without intrusion
of powers by one organ on the other. It is found that
even
if
in
the
absence
of
any
constitution
and
disciplinary mechanism, a Judge of the High Court was
removed about 187 years ago. (Ibid)
After passing of the Constitution Reform Act,
2005, the relationship between the Parliament and the
judiciary
has
undergone
a
structural
change.
The
removal of the UK’s highest court of appeal from the
House of Lords formally separated the Judges from the
legislature
and
this
has
inevitably
changed
the
institutional architecture within which Judges and
parliamentarians interact. But the provisions of the
Act do not tell the whole story of those changes,
which did not begin and end in 2005. The removal of
the Law Lords was a critical moment, but practices
shaping relations between Parliament and Judges were
changing before then and have evolved since.
There will always be tensions between Parliament
and the Courts. Recent years have provided a number
of high profile examples: sustained wrangling over
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