Top judge rebuffs attack on top court
Lord Reed: “idiotic” to think name makes us behave like US Supreme Court
The United Kingdom’s most senior judge has savaged government-inspired proposals to rename and restructure the UK Supreme Court, describing them as an “act of national self-harm which could only reduce respect for this country as a bastion of a rule of law and weaken the UK as an international centre for legal services”.
Last November, the Sunday Telegra…
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