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20 January 2023 / Brice Dickson
Issue: 8009 / Categories: Features , In Court , Law digest , Profession
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Reflections on the Supreme Court in 2022

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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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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston

Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston

Harneys senior leadership appointments

Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan

Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan

Freeths strengthens London Construction and Engineering practice with two strategic senior hires

Anthony Collins—Laura Moss

Anthony Collins—Laura Moss

Anthony Collins announces strategic hire to deepen skills base in the social business sector

NEWS
More than 100 teams from the legal and financial services sectors competed in five sports at the 51st Law Society RFC Festival of Sport earlier this month
Part-time status need only be an effective cause of less favourable treatment, rather than the sole cause, the Supreme Court has held in Augustine v Data Cars
Britain’s new acknowledgement that Israel’s occupation is unlawful, and accompanying settlement-goods ban and sanctions, is significant but overdue, argue Danny Friedman KC and Victor Kattan in NLJ this week
New planning fee rises, wider trade union access rights and a service-by-email trap feature in Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way
Existing defamation law can respond to AI ‘hallucinations’, but allocating responsibility will prove harder where outputs reach users without human intervention
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