Lefty lawyers, ‘enemies of the people’: how upholding the law is a crime in some eyes | Charles Falconer

Key legal principles are threatened by the growing rightwing attacks on our judiciary

On 4 November 2016, the Daily Mail's front page was wholly devoted to a screaming attack on the three judges who had ruled that parliament had to pass an act of parliament before the UK could lawfully leave the European Union. The enemies of the people", who included, the Mail yelled, an openly gay ex-Olympic fencer", were accused of defying 17.4 million Brexit voters.

That was the beginning.

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