Supreme Court

Deputy President of the Supreme Court, Lord Hodge, has today announced his intention to retire on 31 December 2025. Lord Hodge has served as a justice of the Supreme Court and the JCPC since 1st October 2013 and was appointed as deputy president in January 2020. Appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1996,

The Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill is fundamentally incompatible with the UK’s human rights obligations, Westminster's Joint Committee on Human Rights has warned. Following scrutiny of the bill to assess its human rights implications, the committee has published a report highli

Justices of the Supreme Court took part in a virtual exchange with the High Court of Australia this month. The event was part of a series of virtual bilateral meetings with judges globally. Roundtable discussions were led by justices from each delegation on different topics, including the structures

The Supreme Court ought to be abolished and have its functions transferred to an appeal court comprising judges drawn from the UK's three legal jurisdictions, a senior barrister and academic has suggested. In a paper for the Policy Exchange think tank, Derrick Wyatt QC, emeritus professor of law at

Administrative law expert Paul Daly explores the Supreme Court's judgment in R v Adams. On two occasions in the 1970s, Gerry Adams, allegedly a leading member of the Irish Republican Army at the time and later a prominent Sinn Féin politician, was convicted of attempting to escape from lawful

International legal consensus on the nature of cryptoassets as property rights will be required if they become widely used, Lord Hodge has said. The Deputy President of the Supreme Court said this was "the most pressing" property law issue in relation to cryptoassets.

Scottish Legal News was pleased to attend a recent event in Edinburgh organised by the Scottish Young Lawyers’ Association and hosted by the Society of Solicitors of the Supreme Court in Scotland where we heard from current Supreme Court judicial assistant (JA), Francesca Ruddy and former

An outgoing Supreme Court justice has issued two "caveats" to "anyone" thinking of politicising judicial appointments to the UK's highest court – namely that the court deals with very few political cases and that observers often "get things wrong". At his valedictory ceremony yesterday, Lord C

Judicial assistants from the Supreme Court will be visiting Edinburgh this month to talk about the coveted role to prospective applicants. The Scottish Young Lawyers' Association (SYLA) will be welcoming Chris Maile, head of HR at the court; current Scottish JA, Francesca Ruddy; and former JA, barri

A retired Supreme Court justice has said there is "no moral obligation to obey the law" in a major intervention over the legality of assisted suicide. Jonathan Sumption QC, who retired from the Supreme Court bench last December, said he believed the law "should be broken from time to time".

Current and former Supreme Court judicial assistants (JAs) visited Edinburgh last week to regale practitioners with stories from the highest court in the land. Attendees learned about their work summarising cases, deliberating with justices, the annual JA trip to the US and the immensely positive im