The UK Supreme Court will sit in Belfast for the first time in April 2018, in the Inns of Court Library at the Royal Courts of Justice in Belfast. Supreme Court President Lady Hale will be joined by Deputy President Lord Mance, Lord Kerr (former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland), Lord Hodge and Lady Black for up to four days of hearings. Lady Hale said: ‘My colleagues and I strongly believe that the experience of watching a case in person should not be limited to those within easy reach of London.’ It will hear two cases, including the ‘gay cake’ case, Lee v Ashers Baking Company Ltd [2015] NICty 2.
30 November 2017
Belfast visit
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Osbornes Law—Alex McMahon, Andrew Middlehurst & Harriet McMorrin
Homegrown hat-trick: Osbornes Law promotes three former trainees to partner
mfg Solicitors—Sarah Bradford
Partner arrival boosts law firm’s growing real estate team
Freeths—David Smith
Freeths secures major tax hire with appointment of David Smith
NEWS
The Supreme Court has clarified the scope of a director’s duty, in a case where a chairman’s good intentions went awry due to the pandemic
Digital fraud is ‘baffling policymakers, investigators, prosecutors and enforcers’, leaving ‘a massive justice gap’, the author of a government-commissioned independent review has warned
Richard Lloyd’s independent review of the Legal Services Board (LSB) has delivered a devastating verdict, accusing the super-regulator of having ‘lost its way in recent years’
The House of Commons has passed the Hillsborough Law, in a historic achievement for campaigners, survivors and families of those who died in the 1989 stadium collapse
Judicial statistics show a steady rise in the number of female judges and Asian and mixed ethnicity judges in the past ten years—however, progress in terms of representation has stalled for both Black lawyers and for solicitors
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