The government appears to have exercised a degree of restraint with its Judicial Review and Courts Bill. But the lord chancellor has hinted that further reforms are on the horizon Robert Buckland chose to deliver a keynote address on judicial review reform at the headquarters of Policy Exchange – a right-of-centre thinktank that has published some of the loudest critics of so-called judicial activism. Legal observers understandably took this as a sign of what to expect from the Judicial Review and Courts Bill, published seconds before the webinar began. But whether the bill’s proposals go as far as Policy Exchange’s Judicial Power Project would like is open to debate. The thinktank ‘will be deeply disappointed by what you have wisely brought forward’, Lord Pannick QC told Buckland mischievously during the Q&A session.