It has been reported that a significant number of judges intends to challenge the proposed pension reforms, which include an increase in contributions. It seems that their argument is that these changes would constitute unlawful interference by the executive with the independence of the judiciary. It’s all good constitutional stuff and, no doubt, reference will be made to the writings of Baron de Montesquieu and A V Dicey on the separation of powers.
Presumably concerns about ministerial mutterings of bias will mean that any challenge through the courts will have to end up in the European Court of Human Rights. Otherwise, as the satirist Juvenal once wrote|: ‘…quis custodiet ipsos custodes?’
