Archive for October, 2009
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Supreme Courts – Communicating with the Public
07 Oct 2009Following our posting of a Supreme Court information wish list we have become aware of some interesting ways in which Supreme Courts…
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Truly the Supremes? Reflections on the New Court
07 Oct 2009The excitement generated by the establishment of the UK’s Supreme Court, now at last up and running, is highest amongst…
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Court Anonymity Order
07 Oct 2009Earlier this week we reported on the Supreme Court’s anonymity order in the A v HM Treasury case. The Court…
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Supreme Court Website – Update
06 Oct 2009The well presented Supreme Court website now has another function operational – that dealing with “Current Cases”. This means that…
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Day one: Judges put Power to the Test: Ministers hate to be overruled, but their dangerous dominance has made the Supreme Court vital
06 Oct 2009Many years before the passage of the Human Rights Act, some lawyers on the left distrusted the notion of…
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View from across the pond . . . [updated]
06 Oct 2009The Voice of America (“a multimedia international broadcasting service funded by the US Government through the Broadcasting Board of Governors”)…
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Court Rules on Anonymity Issue
05 Oct 2009In a ruling given at the outset of the hearing of its first appeal, the Supreme Court ruled that one…
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First Appeal: A v HM Treasury [updated]
05 Oct 2009At 11.00am this morning Tim Owen QC opened the first appeal in the Supreme Court, before a 7 judge panel,…
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Selecting the Panel and the Size of the Court [updated]
04 Oct 2009In its first case, beginning tomorrow, the Supreme Court will sit as a bench of 7. It has recently decided that…
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UKSC Blog on the Blogs
03 Oct 2009The launch of UKSC Blog has produced a ripple of interest in the blogosphere. Tracking the references has enabled…