10 January 2020
Lady Hale retires from the Supreme Court this month, leaving a trove of case law with ‘massive breadth’, writes family lawyer & NLJ columnist David Burrows in this week’s NLJ
He highlights Lady Hale’s work on children’s law cases as ‘the area where her deep understanding of the law will be most felt when she steps down’. From the importance of listening to children while balancing the impact on their welfare to the right of children to benefit from child maintenance obligations, she developed the law in this area. Another important case involved the right of an estranged brother to death benefits so he could bury his sibling.
Burrows expresses ‘how absurd it is that a judge should be lost to us when she is still at the top… of her game’.
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