Lady Hale
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Gender | Female |
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Age | 79 |
Date of birth | January 31,1945 |
Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
Born | Yorkshire |
United Kingdom | |
Presidents | Lord Neuberger |
Appointed by | Elizabeth II |
Deputy | Lord Mance |
Lord Reed | |
Spouse | Julian Farrand |
Anthony Hoggett | |
Books | The Family, Law and Society: Cases and Materials |
Mental Health Law | |
From the Test Tube to the Coffin: Choice and Regulation in Private Life | |
The Family, Law & Society | |
Women and the Law | |
Parents and Children: The Law of Parental Responsibility | |
Parents and Children | |
Mental Health | |
A Guide to the Children Act 1989 | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 1603058 |
Lady Hale Life story
Brenda Marjorie Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE, PC, known as Lady Hale, is a British judge serving as President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom since 2017. In 2004, she joined the House of Lords as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. She is the only woman to have been appointed to this position.
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... Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and the former president of the UK Supreme Court Lady Hale have added their signatures to the petition - as have professor of international law Philippe Sands QC; former prosecutor for the Nuremberg Military Tribunal Benjamin Ferencz; Labour peer Helena Kennedy QC; and former president of the European Court of Human Rights Sir Nicolas Bratza...
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... On Friday, the Supreme court, President, Lady Hale, vagina, insisted that the judge was not motivated politically ...
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... Lady Hale said: It s unreasonable to expect a husband and wife or mother and father who are in crisis in their personal relationship to make their own arrangements without help...
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... Lady Hale talks to our legal correspondent Clive Coleman about the day in September when the court ruled that the prime minister had unlawfully advised the Queen to suspend Parliament...
Lady Hale warns against the UK adopting a US-style Supreme Court
...Lady Hale will be replaced by Lord Reed (left) as Supreme Court president next month Outgoing Supreme Court President Lady Hale has warned against politicians choosing the UK s top judges in a speech marking her retirement...
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... In Wednesday s judgment, President of the Supreme Court Lady Hale said: I can reach no other conclusion than that the Employment Rights Act should be read and given effect so as to extend its whistleblowing protection to the holders of judicial office...
Lady Hale warns against the UK adopting a US-style Supreme Court
Lady Hale will be replaced by Lord Reed (left) as Supreme Court president next month
Outgoing Supreme Court President Lady Hale has warned against politicians choosing the UK's top judges in a speech marking her retirement.
She advised against adopting a US-style approach "whether in powers or in process of appointment".
The Conservatives have pledged to review the "relationship between the government, Parliament and the courts".
Lady Hale recently.
She will officially retire from her post when she turns 75 next month - the mandatory retirement age for judges appointed before 1995.
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In her final speech in The Role , Lady Hale said: "We (Supreme Court justices) do not know one another's political opinions - although occasionally we may have a good Guess - and long may that remain so.
"Judges have not been appointed for party political reasons in This Country since at least the Second World War .
"We do not want to turn into the Supreme Court of the United States - whether in powers or in process of appointment. "
UK Supreme Court judges are appointed on legal experts' advice, whereas in the US The President can nominate them.
In September, the Supreme Court ruled that Boris Johnson 's decision to suspend Parliament for five weeks was unlawful.
Lady Hale delivered that ruling, saying the unanimous decision of the 11 justices meant Parliament had effectively not been prorogued, triggering the resumption of Parliamentary business The Following day.
In response, attorney-general Geoffrey Cox QC told MPs in The Commons there could come a time for "parliamentary scrutiny" of senior judicial appointments.
However, just days later he said that US-style hearings "would be a regrettable step for us in our constitutional arrangements. "
During the election, however, the Conservative Party pledged to review the UK's unwritten constitution.
In its manifesto, it said: "After Brexit we also need to look at the broader aspects of our constitution: The Relationship between the government, Parliament and the courts; the functioning of The Royal prerogative; The Role of The House of Lords; and access to justice for Ordinary People . "
Lady Hale - who was born Brenda Hale, and is widely known as Judge Brenda - became the Supreme Court's first female president when she was appointed in 2017.
Signing off, she joked that you had to feel sorry for the male institutions which had had to adjust.
"If Judge Brenda has inspired a younger generation To Believe in the ideals of justice, fairness and equality, and to think that they might put them into practice, Judge Brenda will retire content", She Said .
Lord Reed will replace her in January.
Also speaking at The Ceremony , he praised her for her handling of the prorogation hearing, calling it "her greatest achievement", with a ruling which would be "of lasting importance".
And he suggested that The Spider brooch she wore when delivering The Verdict had become "a symbol of swashbuckling womanhood".
She is "an inspiration to women, and especially to women lawyers", he said, adding that he would miss "an inspiring pioneer, a distinguished scholar and judge, and a valued friend. "
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Source of news: bbc.com