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Reflections on the Supreme Court in 2022

20 January 2023 / Brice Dickson
Issue: 8009 / Categories: Features , In Court , Law digest , Profession
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Brice Dickson analyses the composition & key judgments of the Supreme Court in 2022
  • The justices making up the Supreme Court, the number and range of cases they considered, and the key judgments they produced in 2022.

At the end of January 2022, with Lord Lloyd-Jones and Lady Arden having reached their compulsory retirement age during that month, the Supreme Court was down to just ten justices, and a competition had not yet begun for their replacements. This was because it was expected that the compulsory retirement age would be extended from 70 to 75 by the Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022, which indeed occurred on 10 March. The result of the competition which was then held was that Lord Lloyd-Jones (who had retired at 70) was reappointed as from 30 August. Lady Arden (who had retired at 75 because she was originally appointed as a judge before the compulsory retirement age had been introduced) was replaced by a retired Court of Appeal judge,

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