173 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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