Dismantling racial justice

In: Race & class: a journal for black and third world liberation, Band 54, Heft 4, S. 43-47

Abstract

According to this commentary, the UK coalition government's 2012 proposals to restrict judicial review and to abolish measures which safeguard race equality amount to a further assault on migrants, asylum seekers and BME communities, in the guise of promoting economic growth. The arguments against judicial review – their number, their length, their cost – are contested here. The author argues that judicial review is a necessary protection for human rights, especially when legal aid is being withdrawn.