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Baroness Hale on her stupendous, eye-opening life in the law: ‘People are capable of treating tiny children very, very badly’

She was the first female president of the supreme court, causing a ruckus when she ruled against Boris Johnson’s suspension of parliament. Now she has written an insider’s take on the UK’s underfunded, overwhelmed justice system

The Guardian - UK

Court ruling on legal definition of a woman ‘misinterpreted’, Lady Hale says

Speaking at book festival in east Sussex, former supreme court president says reaction to judgment ‘very binary’

The Guardian - UK

End of life care in England and Wales can’t cope with demand, say doctors opposed to assisted dying

Forecast indicates about 130,000 more people will need palliative care by 2048

The Guardian - UK

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Top judge reveals colleague’s sexist comment when she was appointed first woman to the House of Lords

Baroness Hale also discussed how laws around domestic abuse have changed in the UK over the years

The Independent UK

The left’s biggest failure? We don’t know how to tell stories, says Caroline Lucas

Speaking at Hay Festival, the departing Green MP also criticised the Labour Party’s unwillingness to talk about a wealth tax

The Independent UK

Judges didn’t see what the fuss over Garrick Club was about – they do now

Twelve years after former supreme court president Brenda Hale criticised membership, judges seem to finally grasp what she meant

The Guardian - UK

Legal profession’s most powerful among members of London’s men-only Garrick Club

Roll-call of gentlemen’s club, which bars women, includes judges, barristers and ministers

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More than 30,000 UK asylum seekers on bail under Rwanda deportation threat

Home Office reveals 33,085 will not have claims examined while government tries to remove them

The Guardian - UK

The Rwanda plan is dead in the real world, but will live on in the fantasyland of Tory politics

The supreme court judgment was clear. But that won’t stop the party’s nationalist wing believing they can still succeed, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

Eleven peers have not sat in Lords for at least a year after failing to take oath to king

Ex-supreme court president among those whose failure to take oath means they cannot sit or vote in second chamber

The Guardian - UK

Infanticide: vulnerable mothers who kill their babies can be granted leniency – so why is this historic law being rejected in favour of harsher punishment?

Paris Mayo gave birth to her son Stanley alone – at home, in silence, while her parents and brother were upstairs. Mayo claimed not to have known she was pregnant, and no one at her school or within her family had noticed her condition. She was 15 years old.

The Conversation

Harry, Gwyneth... even Wagatha: we can learn so much from ‘media circuses’

Witnessing equality before the law is surely reason enough to have had Donald Trump on camera

The Guardian - UK

Judicial diversity in the UK is in decline – here's why that is a problem

In August 2022, Sir David Richards and Lord Lloyd-Jones were respectively appointed and reappointed as justices to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. With the recent retirements of Lady Jill Black, Lady Mary Arden and Lady Brenda Hale, the highest court in the land has once again returned to…

The Conversation

Brenda Hale: ‘There’s absolutely no need to scrap the Human Rights Act’

The former supreme court president on the government’s Rwanda plan, her star status among law students and her latest brooch

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Lagan Valley Assembly election 2022 - Constituency candidates as Jeffrey Donaldson seeks return to Stormont

A look at what to expect from the constituency in the upcoming Northern Ireland Assembly election

The Conversation

Hong Kong: British judges leaving top court is a strong condemnation of the end of civil liberties

Lord Robert Reed and Lord Patrick Hodge, the UK supreme court president and deputy president, have resigned from their roles on Hong Kong’s top court. On their departure, they criticised the state of civil liberties and the rule of law in Hong Kong following the implementation of the national security…

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