Did you know?

Did you know?

  • The Supreme Court is open to the public and anyone can visit during opening hours.
  • Almost all the proceedings of The Supreme Court will be filmed, and sometimes broadcast. It is the only court in the United Kingdom to allow this.
  • There is an exhibition about The Supreme Court on the lower ground floor of the building. This includes a special interactive display which examines previous cases, and lets you say what your decision would be.
  • To construct the Middlesex Guildhall in 1913, the builders had to remove the original foundations of the Sanctuary Tower: “a raft of rubble five feet thick and seventy two and a half feet square, built on oak piles driven into the primeval sand of Thorney Island”.
  • The Middlesex Guildhall housed international supreme courts during the Second World War.
  • Stephen Wiltshire, one of the United Kingdom’s most talented young artists, has turned his talent to sketching the Middlesex Guildhall.