Archive for the ‘Features’ Category
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Conor Gearty and the UKSC in Holland
14 Oct 2009We were intrigued by the commentary on the Dutch legal blog, “Publiekrecht en politiek” blog – on a UKSC Blog post by Conor Gearty. …
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Privy Council – debate continues at Cambridge anniversary dinner… in Jamaica
14 Oct 2009With at least 5 of the 11 Supreme Court Justices having been educated at Cambridge (and 4 at Oxford),…
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UKSC Blog on the Blogs, Part 2 [updated]
12 Oct 2009As we pointed out last week, the launch of UKSC Blog attracted some interest in the blogosphere. This interest…
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Privy Council – the pool of judges
11 Oct 2009In an interview in the Financial Times two weeks ago, Lord Phillips complained about the disproportionate time that Supreme Court Justices spent…
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“Should we all have a say on who sits on the Supreme Court?”
08 Oct 2009In an article in today’s Times with this provocative headline, long time legal columnist and top court advocate par excellence…
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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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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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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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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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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…