When Caduaya asked him about his role, he told her, "I am a lawyer and I will not do the extra-judicial thing, but I will clean the city for my people to live in peace".
I think it seeped into the way the judicial system perceived things".
It is worth noting that last month's judgment would not have been possible without legal aid for judicial review – two things which the coalition is also keen to restrict in the name of saving the public money.
Judicial fundamentalists say things like: The Bill of Rights do not apply to the States.
In finding there was no taking here without saying what standard he employed, Justice Breyer's approach, Justice Scalia said, was "reminiscent of the perplexing question 'How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?' " "He simply pronounces," Justice Scalia said of his colleague, "that this is not a judicial taking if there is such a thing as a judicial taking".
But now I see that judicial tyranny, judiciously used, can be a good thing.
"It has to do with things like choice," she said, "things like judicial appointments -- that's probably the most important -- and I feel we have to have checks and balances in Washington if we are going to keep our civil liberties".
Yet the ECHR plays a part in a trend which is having a big impact on the way government works at all levels.Is this growing judicial activism a good thing?
But what exactly is this thing called "judicial activism" that everyone seems so worried about?
The judicial system had taken things too far, he said.
This Friday is Persons Day in Canada, a special day on the country's calendar that commemorates, of all things, a judicial decision.
