Supreme Court Reform

Supreme Court Reform

In the wake of our August paper, Reforming the Supreme Court, Policy Exchange’s Judicial Power Project is pleased to publish a new symposium on Supreme Court reform, in which distinguished legal commentators engage with the question of how and by whom appellate...
Supreme Court Reform

Further thoughts on Supreme Court reform

In our recent paper, Reforming the Supreme Court, Professor Wyatt and I discussed the merits of his proposal to authorise changing panels of Court of Appeal judges to act as the apex appellate court.  I noted that my initial view had been that the proposal was too...
Supreme Court Reform

The problem of judicial diversity

  In Reforming the Supreme Court, Professor Wyatt and Professor Ekins have produced a thoughtful contribution to the ongoing scholarly debate on the correct limits to judicial power; a debate which is, and always has been, driven by political rather than legal...
Supreme Court Reform

Professor Wyatt’s proposal: a response

  The debate about the role of judiciary in our democracy, and in particular of the Supreme Court, will never be resolved to everyone’s satisfaction. At root, there is fundamental disagreement about the legitimate function of the judges under the British...

Reflections on Reform of the UK Supreme Court

Introduction This paper is a sequel to the earlier one published by Policy Exchange entitled “Should the UK Supreme Court be abolished?”[1] A number of commentators, as well as the contributors to this symposium, have discussed my proposal for an extended Final Court...
Supreme Court Reform

Our Ultimate Appellate Court

  Full Disclosure The politically febrile aftermath of Miller I[1] and Miller II[2]is not an ideal time to consider the reform of our Supreme Court. Those decisions seemed, at the time, of enormous political significance, and partisans for the losing side (I am...
Gunnar Beck: EU citizens’ rights after Brexit: The EU’s extravagant demands for extra-territorial jurisdiction by the CJEU and reverse discrimination

Gunnar Beck: EU citizens’ rights after Brexit: The EU’s extravagant demands for extra-territorial jurisdiction by the CJEU and reverse discrimination

Download pdf The tremors caused by the general election are still working their way through the political system. The implications for the nature of the UK’s future relationship with the EU have been the subject of much speculation. Before too long, however, the...