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Judges are appointed to interpret and apply the value inherent in the law. Within the limits of the legal method, they may disagree about those values. But they have no right to throw off the constraints of legal methodology. In particular, they have no right to base their decisions about the validity of legislation upon personal approval or disapproval of the policy of the legislation. When they do, they foresight their legitimacy Australian Cheif Justice Murray Gleeson in his book The Rule of Law and Constitution. 2000 Boyer Lectures, Sydney. ABC Books at page 134.
Posted on: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 15:37:56 +0000

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