Issues of intellectual property ownership, human resources protocols, and time management, as well as the challenge of keeping a delineated barrier between professorial and business activities can be difficult to manage, but these concerns shouldn't
prevent academics from seeking to create a startup company.
And such practical matters shouldn't
prevent scientists, philosophers and
academics continuing to debate these important
issues.»
Lord Neuberger, President of the Supreme Court, alluded to this in his speech at the Legal Wales Conference 2014 on 10 October: «The
academics debate whether it is conceivable that Parliament would enact a law which was so contrary to principle that the courts would ignore it — eg a law which
prevents citizens from challenging any decision of a government department in the courts... I profoundly hope that it is an
issue which never has to be tested, not least because, if it does, something will already have gone very wrong with our system of government.»