NON-PARTISAN
By Nicola Laver
In a letter to The Telegraph earlier this month, retired Judge Nicholas Webb called for 'politicised topics' such as criminology and diversity law to be pulled from undergraduate law degrees and only studied at post-graduate level. His comments appear to stem from a growing concern that the judiciary has becoming politicised, following the Supreme Court's landmark prorogation ruling in September 2019. Talking to the BBC's Today programme on Radio 4 just after Christmas, outgoing Supreme Court President Baroness Hale refuted the idea that she or her fellow judges were swayed by their political views. 7 January 2020