Posts Tagged with ‘Sumption’
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Sumption QC withdraws from race to Supreme Court
10 Dec 2009We have discussed the press speculation about the application by Jonathan Sumption QC to become the twelfth justice of…
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And the odds on the twelfth Supreme Court justice are…
24 Nov 2009Applications to become the United Kingdom’s twelfth Supreme Court justice closed almost a month ago and the selection panel, chaired…
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“Judges oppose appointment of Sumption, QC, to the Supreme Court”
15 Oct 2009In an article in today’s Times with this headline Frances Gibb reports that (unnamed) “senior” judges from the Court of Appeal…
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“The selection commission invites applications”
10 Oct 2009Caught between the recession and swingeing legal aid cuts, many lawyers are considering whether a public sector job – the…
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Direct Appointments to Supreme Courts
29 Sep 2009In an earlier post we drew attention to a recent article in The Guardian by Marcel Berlins entitled ‘Our new Supreme Court is a…
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Judicial Numbers [updated]
19 Sep 2009Although section 23(2) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2006 provides that the Supreme Court “consists of 12 Judges”, after Lord…
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Case preview: Office of Fair Trading (respondents) v Abbey National plc and others (appellants)
24 Jun 2009The hearing of the final round of the bank charges litigation continued today. The hearing is the culmination of…
