… the existing constitutional principle of the rule of law’’or ‘‘the Lord Chancellor’s existing
constitutional role in relation to that principle’’. This provision, the Attorney-General has suggested…

… general principles is an essential component of the judicial … to undertake uninvited judicial
enforcement of the principle (never … That is a general principle clear in itself, and there can be …

… and the rule of law."It is this claim about the underlying ideal of the Rule of Law that prompts
me … My guess is that a great number of legal observers thought the Rule of Law required the …

… as fundamental." First, she asserted that "[t]he Rule of Law requires that legal rules be …
The separation of powers is "essential in maintaining the Rule of Law" in large part because …

… meta-principle allowing a legal principle to trump a legal rule. … law from the beginning
incorporated all the principles we would ever want in a legal system, or the set of legal principles …

… the legal sense and with the conception of the rule of law which … ceivable that law can consist
only of general rules and it is … by laws and my men, so we need both general and particular …

… have rewritten constitutions and laws and initiated key changes in their legal institutions.
Many government officials have begun accepting the law's authority and respecting judicial …

… Moreover, the defining elements of the Rule of Law … legal standard may be less capable
of effectively guiding conduct than a clear rule,3 6 but a judicial decision replacing a standard …

The principles of the rule of law,'as recognized in developed Western systems, generally
include the familiar requirements that law be rule-like so far as appropriate, that it be dear, that it …

… , we are not indifferent to the question of who are the norm-subjects of a given legal rule. …
main virtues of the rule of law consists in the value that we attach to the predictability of the legal …