Constitutional

Article: 108th High Court judge

Guy Richard Newey QC of Maitland Chambers has been appointed as an additional High Court judge in the Chancery Division to help with an increased workload.

Article: Fee-sharing favours solicitor-advocates over barristers

Solicitor-advocates may be appointed for cases beyond their competency because of a desire to keep costs low, a report commissioned by the Legal Services Board (“LSB”) has found.

Article: Impact of Supreme Court

The emergence of a UK constitutional court could be “one unintended consequence” of the new Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger has warned. “I am not saying that this will or that it should happen. I am saying it may happen,” he said, delivering the Young...

Article: Master of the Rolls

Sir Anthony Clarke is to retire as Master of the Rolls at the end of September, and will become a Justice of the Supreme Court, which opens on 1 October 2009, following the retirement of Lord Scott as Law Lord. A panel of four—Lord Judge, Lord P...

Article: New court is a “pillar of the constitution”

In a country where “law is a bedrock of society” the new Supreme Court is a “pillar of the constitution”, the former senior Law Lord, Lord Bingham of Cornhill told a well attended meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Legal and Constit...

Article: New faces in the coalition government

Barristers Dominic Grieve QC and Edward Garnier QC have been appointed Attorney General and Solicitor General respectively in the new Con–Lib Dem coalition government.

Article: Role of Attorney General is “sound”

Baroness Scotland has mounted a robust defence of the “fundamentally sound” role of the Attorney General. The government began a review of the role of Attorney General in 2007 and announced its decision, that no change to the law was necessary, in...

Article: Supreme Court could cause “unpredictable changes”

The new Supreme Court could cause unpredictable changes to the constitution, Lord Neuberger has warned. The former Law Lord, who is due to return to the Court of Appeal in October to take over as Master of the Rolls, has suggested that the Justices...

Article: Supreme Court could cause “unpredictable changes”

The new Supreme Court could cause unpredictable changes to the constitution, Lord Neuberger has warned. The former Law Lord, who is due to return to the Court of Appeal in October to take over as Master of the Rolls, has suggested that the Justices of...

Article: Supreme Court official opening

The Supreme Court was officially opened on 16 October 2009. Speaking at the ceremony, the Secretary of State for Justice Jack Straw said that the new Supreme Court “mixes the old and the new, and keeps the historic balance between Parliament, g...

Article: Supreme Court premises “unnecessary”

Shadow Attorney General Dominic Grieve lambasted the waste of money on an “entirely unnecessary” Supreme Court, when he delivered the recent Boydell lecture.

Article: The freedom of Supreme Courts

Freedom of expression is “an important card in the pack” but “not always the ace of trumps”,  according to Lady Justice Arden.In a speech, Freedom of Expression and the Role of a Supreme Court—Some Issues from Around the World, at a judicial academic...