The Supreme Court will sit in Manchester next March—the first time it has sat outside one of the UK’s four capital cities.
Lord Reed, the president, and four other justices will hear three cases at the Manchester Civil Justice Centre, between 6 and 9 March. Lord Reed said the Supreme Court ‘is committed to being one of the most open and accessible courts in the world’.
In another first, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) will hold its inaugural sitting in an overseas territory of the UK, the Cayman Islands, from 15–18 November. The judges are all justices of the Supreme Court, and the JCPC hears appeals from the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal.
The governor of the Cayman Islands, Martyn Roper, said: ‘Our highly respected independent judicial system is a cornerstone of the success of the Cayman Islands.’
