“I desire it to be thoroughly understood that the execution of the decrees of the judiciary in this country does not depend—as it does not, I believe, in any civilised country—upon the will of the Executive who, for the moment, may happen to be in office. Into the execution of our writ we cannot allow any question of party politics to enter. If the law be wrong, let the law be altered by the Legislature, and the judges will, at the moment, carry out the law as altered. They cannot look beyond the law. They cannot, in the administration of that law, contemplate alterations at a future time. Their sworn duty is to give to him who asks it that which he is entitled to by law. It is not competent to them, or to any other person, to go behind the law and to ask whether, in his own opinion, or in the opinion of others, the law is just or unjust. With them the only consideration must be that is the law. They are bound to pronounce the law. From that pronouncement there is an appeal to the highest court in the realm. But when judgment is once given—the judgment of a court of law, acting within the scope of its jurisdiction—it is not competent to anyone in this kingdom, I care not how high he may be, to say that a writ regularly issued on foot of that judgment shall not be executed, or to prevent those who by law are bound to aid in its execution from giving that aid and assistance which the Constitution requires.” In 1893 the County Inspector of the Royal Irish Constabulary in County Kerry, by the direction of the Executive, refused the assistance of the Constabulary to the Sheriff of the County, when he desired to execute certain writs of the superior Courts in the night time. The Sheriff thereupon applied to the Queen’s Bench Division for an attachment against the County Inspector, and the Court unanimously made the order.(116) The Lord Chief Justice (Lord O’Brien) in giving judgment said (p. 238):