“In a rare public intervention Lord Neuberger, President of the UK Supreme Court, has flagged three important issues that should be of concern to us all.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 6th March 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The stereotypical image of judges as male and white may be so deeply entrenched that there could be an ‘unconscious bias’ against women, the United Kingdom’s most senior judge has suggested.”
The Guardian, 5th March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“MPs will vote on Monday on the final form of the government’s justice and security bill, which radically expands the use of so-called secret courts.”
The Guardian, 3rd March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The former head of the judiciary, Lord Woolf, has thrown his support behind plans to allow more civil courts to examine secret intelligence in private.”
BBC News, 4th March 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The judge in the Vicky Pryce trial last week dismissed the jury for ‘fundamental deficits in understanding’. Should jurors have to sit a test?”
The Guardian, 23rd February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Martha Gray, Pupil at 1 Garden Court, considers whether and in what circumstances a judge who has announced her decision is entitled to change her mind, particularly in the context of fact-finding hearings in care proceedings, in the light of the Supreme Court’s recent judgment.”
Family Law Week, 22nd February 2013
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
Equality in the Judiciary (PDF)
Speech by Lady Hale
Kuttan Menon Memorial Lecture, 21st February 2013
Source: www.supremecourt.gov.uk
“Cases before the Chancery Division, Technology and Construction Court (TCC), and Mercantile Courts that are worth less than £2m will be subject to costs management, it was confirmed yesterday.”
Litigation Futures, 22nd February 2013
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
“Positive discrimination may be needed to redress the gender imbalance among senior judges, the only woman in Britain’s highest court has proposed.”
The Guardian, 21st February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Home Secretary, Theresa May, is no stranger to ill-founded outbursts concerning the evils of human rights. Against that background, her recent article in the Mail on Sunday (to which Adam Wager has already drawn attention) does not disappoint. May’s ire is drawn by certain recent judicial decisions in which the deportation of foreign criminals has been ruled unlawful on the ground that it would breach their right to respect for private and family life under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Some of these judgments, May contends, flout instructions issued to judges by Parliament about how such cases should be decided.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 18th February 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The home secretary, Theresa May, has accused judges of ‘subverting’ British democracy and making the streets of Britain more dangerous by ignoring rules aimed at deporting more foreign criminals.”
The Guardian,
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Thousands of part-time judges will be entitled to a public-sector pension for the first time at a cost of up to £2 billion following a ruling by fellow judges in the highest court in the land.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The UK supreme court has denied rumours that it has come under pressure from the government to select a woman for appointment to one of three current vacancies.”
The Guardian, 15th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
In the public interest (PDF)
Speech by Mr Justice Foskett
The ‘Disciplinary Conference’, 8th February 2013
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“A part-time fee-paid judge was a worker under European Union law and had a right not to be treated in a less favourable manner than comparable full-time workers. The denial of retirement pensions to part-judges when full-time judges were granted pensions was less favourable treatment for which there was no objective justification. Accordingly, on the basic principle of remunerating part-time workers pro rata temporis, a recorder was entitled to a pension on terms equivalent to those applicable to a circuit judge.”
WLR Daily, 6th February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Many children who end up in care are never interviewed by the judge who makes the decision to remove them from their families, according to a report by an influential group of MPs and child protection experts.”
The Guardian, 10th February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Supreme Court, 6th February 2013
“Judges have been given figures showing how much they will lose when their tax-free pension allowances are cut in line with government reforms of public sector pay.”
The Guardian, 6th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Constitutional reforms that have taken effect over the past seven years ‘may be eroding something rather important’, the lord chief justice of England and Wales told peers on Wednesday.”
The Guardian, 30th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Judges will decide whether civil cases involving national security can be heard in secret in a climbdown by the Government.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th January 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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