Do our Supreme Court judges have too much power?

In our tradition, courts do not and should not stand in judgment over parliament. It is for parliament, in conversation with the people, to choose what the law should be and the duty of courts is to uphold those choices. In the years before the UK decided to leave the EU, some judges reasoned that the constitution had evolved to the point where parliamentary sovereignty was redundant. They suggested it was time for judges to assert a power to quash laws they thought were unjust or unprincipled. Their view was always legal nonsense, and it is very unlikely that a British court will attempt to strike down a statute anytime soon. However, even if our judges are, thankfully, less mighty than their North American or continental European counterparts, the expansion and misuse of judicial power still puts the balance of the constitution in doubt. Two cases to be decided by the Supreme Court later today illustrate the problem.