Andy Slaughter MP, Labour’s Shadow Justice Minister, commenting on the Tories and Lib Dems overturning the House of Lords defeats, and reinstating in the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill the attacks on judicial review, said:

“David Cameron’s Government has repeatedly ignored the warnings of almost every independent expert that its attacks on judicial review would undermine our constitution. In rejecting the Lords Amendments the Tory-led Government is savagely attacking the rights of the individual citizen to take on the state in court, opening the door for unlawful governments to avoid scrutiny. All of this has been done without even a whimper from the Liberal Democrats, who have lost any remaining vestige of credibility on civil liberties.”