Judicial infallibility is a legal doctrine too far
Just as Parliament historically wrested power from the Monarchy, today the judiciary is attempting to wrest power from the legislature.
“If the law supposes that, the law is a ass – a idiot.” That well-known aphorism from Mr Bumble, the beadle in Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist, has been increasingly cited in recent times, as public impatience has mounted over perverse judgements in British courts, frequently as a consequence of deferring to foreign courts and treaties, most commonly the ECHR.