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  • Pannick on Mr Justice Peter Smith

    Carl Gardner
    September 3, 2015

    Today’s Times has a piece by Lord Pannick QC (behind the Times paywall) on the extraordinary behaviour of Mr Justice Peter Smith in a case involving British Airways earlier this summer. The case, he says,

    raises serious […]

    Tags: judges, lord pannick
  • Sir John! Sir John! Are we there yet?

    Carl Gardner
    August 31, 2015
    Tags: inquiries, iraq, judges, lawyers, lord lester, lord morris
  • Lady Justice Arden on proportionality

    Carl Gardner
    November 15, 2012

    On Monday evening Arden LJ gave the UK Association for European Law’s annual address, at King’s College, London. You can read the speech in the window below.

    She makes a number of interesting points about differences between the way different […]

    Tags: judges, public law
  • Lord Irvine’s speech: full text

    Carl Gardner
    December 15, 2011

    Thanks to Paul Dillane, who directed me to the document.

    Tags: human rights, judges
  • Lord Irvine: British judges should decide human rights cases for themselves

    Carl Gardner
    December 14, 2011

    Lord Irvine tonight weighed in to the debate about Britain’s relationship with the European Court of Human Rights – and effectively accused the Supreme Court of having surrendered its intellectual independence, and shirked its judicial responsibility.

    His at times toughly-worded lecture […]

    Tags: human rights, judges
  • Lady Hale’s injudicious speech

    Carl Gardner
    December 2, 2011

    Does Lady Hale wish she were still sitting in the House of Lords, rather than the Supreme Court? Earlier this week she gave a striking speech to the Law Centres Federation conference. She opened her remarks by saying

    It is not […]

    Tags: constitution, judges, legal aid
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