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‘A letter to the loser’? Public law and the empowering role of the judgment

This article looks at the role of judgments in the public law context, argues for the importance of judicial acknowledgement of (particularly) the losing party's story and analyses key public law decisions where this has occurred. It takes the position that judgments are written for a number of audiences, including the successful and unsuccessful litigant, and that consideration in a judgment's drafting of how it will be received holds benefits not only for the parties but also for the legitimacy of the courts more broadly.