What do we mean by the rule of law? For some people ... approach to a universal secular religion". Bingham has held office as Master of the Rolls, Lord Chief Justice and Senior Law Lord: he ...

Lord Bingham used the occasion of his first major ... “Particularly disturbing to proponents of the rule of law is the cynical lack of concern for international legality among some top officials ...

For most people who live under the rule of law its blessings can be clearer and less ambiguous even than those conferred by liberal democracy or free markets. Uniquely, Lord Bingham has held all ...

Lord Bingham, a former Lord Chief Justice, made his comments in a speech on the rule of law at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London. He referred to a written ...

Tom Bingham, The Rule of Law, Allen Lane, £20.00 (available from Amazon.co.uk for £12) In the first of two reviews of the former lord chief justice’s book on the rule of law, John Jackson ...

This is particularly so in respect of the notions of the rule of law and parliamentary sovereignty. What are they? What do they mean? And are they compatible? In 2002 Lord Bingham said flatly in a ...

My friend Helena Kennedy is right to praise Lord Bingham and to say that the government’s prorogation of parliament demonstrates a contempt for the rule of law, but I part company from her in the ...

Giving the leading judgment, Lord Bingham rejected the Attorney General’s argument ... as a cardinal feature of the modern democratic state, a cornerstone of the rule of law itself. The Attorney ...

Lord Bingham believes there was 'a serious violation of international law and the rule of law' by Britain. But the former Attorney General stands by his advice to Tony Blair in 2003 that military ...

Lord Bingham’s arguments become more debatable ... if any of the principles that define it are breached, then the rule of law itself collapses. But the rule of law comes and goes by degrees ...