DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE JUDGES KEEP OUT OFF-THE-BENCH INFLUENCE ON THE UK’S ANTI- TERROR REGIME ANISA KASSAMALI Judges Keep Out Off-the-bench Influence on the UK’s Anti- terror Regime Anisa Kassamali The Constitution Unit University College London October 2016 ISBN: 978-1-903903-75-9 Published by: The Constitution Unit School of Public Policy University College London 29-31 Tavistock Square London WC1H 9QU United Kingdom Tel: 020 7679 4977 Fax: 020 7679 4978 Email:
[email protected] Web: www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution-unit/ © The Constitution Unit, UCL 2016 This report is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. First published June 2016 Front cover image: © Anneka, used under licence from Shutterstock.com. Contents Executive summary .................................................................................................................................... 1 1. Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 2 2. Methodology ........................................................................................................................................... 7 3. Extra-judicial statements on anti-terror policy ..................................................................................