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Lord Reed and Lady Hale , who retired as President of the Supreme Court

Scottish judge, Lord Reed is a hard act to follow as he takes over from Mrs Hale as President of the British Supreme Court .

in The Past year, as the highest Court of the country came into conflict with the British government in its agreement of the Parliament.

But, the "future-oriented" the judiciary has now retired officially in retirement from office, turned 75.

The Man who has been her Deputy since June 2018, the jury is to be, in a special ceremony on Monday .

Mr Reed (right) was Deputy Lady Hale (on The Left ) since June 2018

The 63-year-old, who was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court in 2012, will be The First Scottish President of the Court of justice since its inception 10 years ago.

In 2017, he was one of the three judges of the Supreme Court , the cleaved against the judgment in the Brexit Court financier Gina Miller .

The ruling by all 11 judges appointed to Prime Minister , Theresa May , with the consent of the Parliament, before they trigger article 50 of the countdown to the launch of the Brexit process to the United Kingdom leaving the EU. could

But Mr. Reed and two other judges said at the time that the legalization of political issues was not always constitutionally adequate.

Who is Mr. Reed ?

Robert John Reed was in Edinburgh in 1956 and studied at The Independent George Watson 's College. He studied law at the University of Edinburgh and later to Oxford.

He was taken in the Scottish lawyers ' Association in 1983 and the youngest judge in the year 1998, it was to Scotland, at the age of only 42.

in The Following year, Mr. Reed sat at the European Court of Human Rights , where one of the cases he heard was an appeal by Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, who had two young as 10-year-olds murdered a toddler, James Bulger.

The panel decided that the pair will get a Fair Trial in 1993 because they were treated as adults in the judicial trial, and not as a juvenile.

Mr Reed took the unusual step of writing a concurring opinion, which explains why children should not be in the "high-official" atmosphere of an adult Court .

Before he was appointed to the Supreme Court , Lord Reed , sitting in the Outer House of the Court of Session, where he was The Most important commercial and business judge. He sat in the Court of the Inner house from 2008 to 2012.

He has to work so far, in the comparison of complaints handling in the Scottish Court the Inner house of the tills at Tesco, as he said, the Supreme Court could give, the cases of the "Rolls-Royce treatment".

He said the Inner Court dealt with hundreds of cases per year, while the Supreme Court is only about 75 took from the whole of the United Kingdom.

It takes the cases he said The Most important thing and looks at you with "more care and effort," he said.

'Greatest legal brains of his generation," Mr Reed (front, right) during The Visit of Prince Charles to the Supreme Court in February Last year

Hope, Lord , who was The First Deputy President of the Supreme Court , said he worked with Mr Reed at the Scottish Bar, and had great respect for him.

"I knew him to be an extremely careful, conscientious and very pleasant person," he said.

The new President was said to be a quiet and closed person, Mr a hope.

"I think he will be The First to recognize that Brenda Hale-the presidency is a very tough law," he said.

"she was very well known known world, and he is not like, but that's not his job. "

He said the Lord would look for Reed to "steady The Ship " and make sure it worked as smoothly as they had always done it.

Lord Hope, said The Job of The President of the Supreme Court was to represent the institution and make sure it was running properly.

He said Lord Reed would not sit on every case, and if he did, he was a judge under the same dignity.

The President has no casting vote and he does not control or endorse the cases, he said.

Joanna Cherry QC said Mr Reed was a high -

Joanna Cherry QC, the SNP MP, considered the agreement against Boris Johnson , the government launched in The Past year, said Mr. Reed was "very polite, very polite, but very demanding".

you said: "He is widely recognized as one of the greatest legal brains of his generation.

"He is a highly respected and deeply courteous man, but he is not to be trifled with. He knows The Law inside and out and they had to be prepared when they appeared before the Lord Reed . "

The new President has been appointed to succeed Lady Hale , on the advice of an independent panel of legal experts.

In one of her Last speeches, Lady Hale , warned the government against picking judges like in the USA.

Mr Reed on The Left side of Lady Hale in her valedictory

the Former Deputy President, Lord hope, sitting in the Supreme Court in December agreed that the safeguard was the independence of the judges is crucial how The System works.

"It must be understood that we are very different from the United States ," he said. "The appointment of judges out there who for their political beliefs. That just does not happen here. Your policy known to your fellow colleagues are.

"you don't have to engage in the political debate. This is completely foreign, and deliberately so. "

He said Lord Reed would continue to be the "wonderful tradition" of the leading Scottish judges of The Past such as a former Lord Reid, one of The Most outstanding judges of the 20Th Century .

"He brings the attitude of the Scots, who have preceded him, the thought out in a quiet, measured, and carefully, that is his trademark," he said.

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Source of news: bbc.com