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Oct 1, 2024 · The Supreme Court was proposed by the Blair Government in 2003, as part of a botched set of reforms to abolish the role of Lord Chancellor and reform judicial appointments.
History. 1 October 2009 marked a defining moment in the constitutional history of the United Kingdom with the separation of judicial power from its historic home in the nation's legislature, the Houses of Parliament, and its transfer to the Supreme Court's own building.
Jan 13, 2020 · The BBC's Clive Coleman takes a look inside the UK's Supreme Court. Their judgements set out how a law should be interpreted and applied. Only a third of the cases that it is asked to rule on...
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Dec 20, 2019 · Changes to the working of the UK's Supreme Court are likely to lie at the heart of wide-ranging reforms of Britain's constitutional settlement. A senior Whitehall source has told BBC...
Sep 5, 2022 · Justice organisations, and even former Lord Chief Justices, attribute the current lack of diversity to historical socio-political failures, which will take more time to be reflected at supreme court appointment level.
Learn more about the UK Supreme Court, how it came into existence, and why it replaced the House of Lords as the UK's highest court.
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Eleven of the 12 Law Lords in post in July 2009 became the first Justices of the Supreme Court and will remain Members of the House of Lords. They are no longer entitled to sit or vote in the Lords but return to the House of Lords when they retire as Justices. New judges appointed to the Supreme Court will not be given peerages.
