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- 01 30, 2025
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Britain’s Supreme Court is sometimes criticised for being too deferential to the government. The government might well disagree. In 2017 the court ruled that fees for employment tribunals impeded access to justice. In 2019 it said Boris Johnson’s suspension of Parliament during the Brexit saga was unlawful. And earlier this month it delivered a sucker punch to Rishi Sunak’s ailing government when it ruled against the Conservatives’ cherished policy of sending .The court’s demolition of the plan, on the ground that Rwanda was unsafe, was so meticulous the policy was “probably dead”, reckoned Jonathan Sumption, a former Supreme Court judge. Yet Mr Sunak has sworn he will revive it. How?