Lord Hodge, Guildhall Lecture – Supreme Court
‘Lord Hodge, Guildhall Lecture – The Rule of Law, the Courts and the British Economy.’
Supreme Court, 4th October 2022
Source: www.supremecourt.uk
Category: judges
Lord Burrows, Sir Christopher Staughton Memorial Lecture 2022 – Supreme Court
‘Lord Burrows, Sir Christopher Staughton Memorial Lecture 2022’
Supreme Court, 15th August 2022
Source: www.supremecourt.uk
Diversity concerns as Supreme Court reappoints old guard – Law Society’s Gazette
‘The Supreme Court has appointed two recently-retired judges as justices, which critics have pointed out means that men called David now outnumber women by three to one on the UK’s highest court.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 18th August 2022
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Judges to be disciplined by lay majority panels – Legal Futures
‘Disciplinary panels hearing cases of judicial misconduct will have lay majorities, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and the judiciary have decided, as part of a major overhaul of the system.’
Legal Futures, 9th August 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
Court of Appeal outlines approach advocates and judges should take to requests for clarification of judgments – Local Government Lawyer
‘The Court of Appeal has considered the extent to which judges are required to respond to requests for clarifications in judgments.’
Local Government Lawyer, 28th July 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
“Trial by internet” – Judges turn to Wikipedia to aid reasoning – Legal Futures
‘Judges are using Wikipedia to research legal issues and allowing it to influence their reasoning, ground-breaking research has discovered.’
Legal Futures, 28th July 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
Judge condemns “trench warfare” over witness statements – Legal Futures
‘The rules on witness statements should not be seen as encouragement to go through them “with a fine-tooth comb” to identify “as many instances of non-compliance as possible for use in trench warfare”, the High Court has said.’
Legal Futures, 25th July 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
First openly gay judge to lead LGBT veterans probe – BBC News
‘Britain’s first openly gay senior judge will lead a review into the impact of a historical ban on LGBT people serving in the armed forces.’
BBC News, 19th June 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Speech by the Lord Chief Justice: Slynn Lecture – Courts and Tribunals Judiciary
‘Speech by the Lord Chief Justice: Slynn Lecture.’
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary , 16th June 2022
Source: www.judiciary.uk
Lord Reed, Donoghue v Stevenson – Supreme Court
‘Lord Reed, Donoghue v Stevenson – 90th Anniversary Conference.’
Supreme Court, 6th June 2022
Source: www.supremecourt.uk
Speech by the Master of the Rolls: CiARB Roebuck lecture – Courts and Tribunals Judiciary
‘The Master of the Rolls, Sir Geoffrey Vos, gave the CiARB Roebuck lecture on Wednesday (8 June 2022). He set out how an integrated digital justice system can be created using common ‘data standards’ governed by the Online Procedure Rule Committee. The lecture explains how this common and consistent approach.’
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary , 10th June 2022
Source: www.judiciary.uk
MPs warn of “politicisation” of Supreme Court – Legal Futures
‘The “high number of instances” in which the Supreme Court has reversed its position on the law and adopted approaches more favourable to the executive has created “the troubling appearance (even if it is only an appearance) of the politicisation of the judiciary”, MPs have warned.’
Legal Futures, 9th June 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
Judicial independence tainted by ministers, Commons inquiry finds – The Guardian
‘Ministers have acted improperly by questioning the legitimacy of judges when they do not get their own way, creating an impression that recent supreme court decisions favourable to the government may have been a response to political pressure, a parliamentary inquiry has found.’
The Guardian, 8th June 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
Courts send different messages to lawyers over witness statements – Legal Futures
‘The strengthened rules on witness statements should not be used as a “weapon with which to fillet” essentially insignificant failures to comply, a High Court judge has said.’
Legal Futures, 27th May 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
A judge has discretion to grant relief from sanctions without a formal application or any application at all, Court of Appeal reaffirms- Farrar’s Building
‘In Park v Hadi and Another [2022] EWCA Civ 581, the Court of Appeal (Holroyde, Stuart-Smith and Warby LJJ), reaffirmed the principle that a judge may, of her own discretion, grant relief from sanctions without formal notice or without any application at all. The Court went on to issue guidance as to how this judicial discretion ought to be exercised, observing that a judge should always act in accordance with the overriding objective and will likely only exercise her discretion to grant relief sparingly.’
Farrar's Building, 5th May 2022
Source: www.farrarsbuilding.co.uk
