10 Facts About The Supreme Court

1.

Current President and Deputy President of the Supreme Court are Lord Reed of Allermuir and Lord Hodge respectively.

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Main argument against a new Supreme Court was that the previous system had worked well and kept costs down.

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3.

Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, later President of the Supreme Court, expressed fear that the new court could make itself more powerful than the House of Lords committee it succeeded, saying that there is a real risk of "judges arrogating to themselves greater power than they have at the moment".

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4.

Supreme Court is the final court of appeal in the UK for civil cases, and for criminal cases from England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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5.

Supreme Court has a separate administration from the other courts of the United Kingdom, under a Chief Executive who is appointed by the Court's president.

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6.

The eleventh place on the Supreme Court was filled by Lord Clarke, who was the first justice to be appointed directly to the Supreme Court.

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7.

UK Supreme Court has since its inception sent some of its justices to sit on Hong Kong's top court, the Court of Final Appeal.

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8.

In June 2021, Baroness Brenda Hale, former president of the UK Supreme Court, announced her decision not to seek reappointment on the Hong Kong court after the end of her term in July while mentioning the impact of the national security law.

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The Supreme Court's became the first senior British judge to quit Hong Kong's top court after the enactment of the security law.

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10.

The Supreme Court is housed in Middlesex Guildhall—which it shares with the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council—in the City of Westminster.

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