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Fascinating speech by Lady Hale, President of the @UKSupremeCourt, on why have a UK Supreme Court. Great insight into the original justification for setting it up and thoughts on whether it is a constitutional court or not
Speech not yet on the website but imagine it’ll be up shortly supremecourt.uk/news/speeches.…
Basically, to sum up, it’s the constitutional court for a country with an unwritten constitution! A very British fudge but one which is working quite well (for now)
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Legal Aid should be available for all families at inquests (investigations into deaths).
▪ 'Human rights' inquests identify state failings and stop them happening again
▪ I have lots of experience of this - failings more likely to be identified if families are represented 1/4
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