14 September 2009
A senior judge has warned that the new Supreme Court will be more powerful than the House of Lords appellate committee.
In an interview on the Radio 4 programme, Top Dogs: Britain’s New Supreme Court, this week, Lord Neuberger said there was a risk of “judges arrogating to themselves greater power than they have at the moment”.
“The danger is that you muck around with a constitution like the British constitution at your peril because you do not know what the consequences of any change will be,” he said.
The Supreme Court will begin hearing cases on 1 October.
Lord Neuberger, a former Law Lord, returns to the Court of Appeal next month as Master of the Rolls.
