14 March 2014

Bishop Hoadley joins the chorus

Today’s Daily Telegraph has a story about judicial activism in England. It is worth reading. It quotes a three hundred-year old authority as saying, in different words, “Show me the judge and I’ll tell you the law.” This is the quote:
As Bishop Hoadley of Winchester remarked three centuries ago, “whoever interprets a law may justly be considered the lawgiver, not he who first wrote or spake it”.
There is little more to be said.



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