Lord Justice Dyson has been named as the 12th and final justice of the Supreme Court. Sir John Dyson was called to the Bar in 1968, took silk in 1982, was appointed to the High Court in 1993, and elevated to the Court of Appeal in 2001. Lord Phillips, President of the United Kingdom Supreme [...]
Lord Neuberger will, on 1st October 2009, be swapping judicial positions with Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony when the former becomes Master of the Rolls and the latter becomes a justice of the new UK Supreme Court. Lord Neuberger, currently 61, is the youngest of the current law lords. He became a High Court judge in [...]
The new robes that judges have worn since October 2008 have been receiving criticism. One critic described them as akin to vestments of “a Catholic bishop”, while another said they look like “a cross between a Star Trek costume and a fascist stormtrooper’s uniform”. Of 104 High Court judges surveyed, 40 voted for their abolition, [...]
The salient features of the work of the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords in 2008 is as follows: 1) 74 decisions were issued issued ([2008] UKHL 1 to [2008] UKHL 74). This equals the record annual number set in 2005. However, one of the decisions (R v GG Plc [2008] UKHL 17) was [...]
