Beware of populist narratives: the importance of getting the Heathrow ruling right

Heyvaert, Veerle ORCID: 0000-0002-7615-0318 (2020) Beware of populist narratives: the importance of getting the Heathrow ruling right. British Politics and Policy at LSE (29 Feb 2020), 1 - 3. Blog Entry.

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Abstract

Despite being presented as an act of judicial chutzpah, the Court of Appeal’s ruling against the government’s planned Heathrow expansion is in fact a modest proposal, explains Veerle Heyvaert. Unlike recent cases elsewhere, it did not challenge climate policy as a whole, but instead judicially reviewed the legality of a single project. She writes that failure to represent the judgment accurately could feed into the populist narrative of courts subverting the ‘will of the people’ yet again.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Author
Divisions:	Law School
Subjects:	K Law > K Law (General) H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain
Date Deposited:	30 Apr 2020 10:21
Last Modified:	11 Sep 2025 12:37
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/104190

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