judiciary not so powerful

• HRA - powers are related to the HRA which can be repealed easily as it is not entrenched
• HRA - Dominic Raab attempted to repeal in 2022
• HRA - Johnson government has spoken about repealing HRA
• HRA - 2015 Conservative party manifesto commitment to replace the HRA with a British Bill of Rights which means the terms and conditions could be amended by a simple vote in Parliament
• Parliament circumvention - 2004 Belmarsh case, government accepted the ruling but soon after introduced legislation to monitor the whereabouts of foreign terrorist suspects
• Parliament circumvention - 2010 SC ruled the government did not have the power to freeze the bank assets of terrorist suspects. Brown accepted the judgement but passed a new statute the same year (Terrorist Asset-Freezing Act) which granted the power and the will of Parliament succeeded
• Judges cannot enforce law, only recommend change which is not legally binding
• Parliament is sovereign! Can reverse decisions
• Judges take the view of Parliament when creating the law, bound by Parliamentary laws
• Can only interpret the laws on cases brought to it
• Ruling restricted to legal and constitutional issues