Reforming the UK’s appeal courts

Do we really want to restructure the Supreme Court after little more than 11 years?

Just over two months ago, the Sunday Telegraph reported that minsters were discussing plans to give the UK Supreme Court a new name, reduce its justices in number from the current 12 and bring in judges with “specialist” knowledge to hear individual cases.

A “Tory source” told the paper of a feeling in government that Tony Blair and his lord chancellor, …