judicial neutrality

• Yes - rules on the basis of law not opinion
• Yes - peer review, can appeal to other courts before the SC and each case, seen by at least 5 justices
• Yes - restrictions on groups judges can join, must disclosed a conflict of interest
• Yes - experience as a lawyer for 15 years so highly trained
• Yes - highly regarded
• Yes - court cases open to public domain so any prejudice would be publicised and recorded
• No - judges are human so cannot truly be neutral as products of their background
• No - judges with narrow background

  • 10/12 Oxbridge
  • 11/12 men
  • 12/12 white
• No - media pressure and toxic discourse e.g. 2016 Gina Miller case
• No - accused of being too liberal, tend to favour rights over state security and law and order
• No - measures like the HRA have drawn judges into the political atmosphere