The SUPREME COURT

Speeches archive

Speeches made this year can be found in our Speeches section.

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2011

• Lord Hope: A Lecture in honour of Sir Gerald Gordon, Edinburgh (PDF)
  Corroboration and Distress
  Given on 12 June 2009 (before the establishment of the Supreme Court), published December 2011 given topicality of subject
• Lord Hope: remarks to introduce Glasgow Bar Association Seminar (PDF)
  The role of the Supreme Court in protecting the rights of the individual in a jurisdiction with no written constitution
  09 Dec 2011
• Lady Hale at the Nottingham Human Rights Lecture 2011 (PDF)
  Argentoratum Locutum: Is the Supreme Court Supreme?
  01 Dec 2011
• Lord Wilson at a reception hosted by Collaborative Family Law, at the Reform Club (PDF)
  Keynote Address
  29 Nov 2011
• Lady Hale at the Law Centres Federation Annual Conference 2011, Manchester (PDF)
  Opening Address
  25 Nov 2011
• Lord Hope at the Scottish Association for the Study of Offending Annual Conference (PDF)
  The impact of Europe on Criminal Justice in Scotland: The role of the UK Supreme Court
  The Lord Rodger of Earlsferry Memorial Lecture
  19 Nov 2011
• Lord Hope at the Familily Law Association Conference (PDF)
  Family Law in the UK Supreme Court
  18 Nov 2011
• Lord Walker at the Thomas More Lecture, Lincoln’s Inn (PDF)
  The Indefinite Article 8
  09 Nov 2011
• Lord Dyson at Hertfordshire University (PDF)
  What is wrong with human rights?
  03 Nov 2011
• Lord Mance at the United Kingdom Association for European Law (PDF)
  The Composition of the European Court of Justice
  19 Oct 2011
• Lord Dyson at Edinburgh University (PDF)
  Time to call it a day: some reflections on finality and the law
  14 Oct 2011
• Lord Mance at the Oxford Shrieval lecture (PDF)
  Should the law be certain
  11 Oct 2011
• Lord Hope at the WG Legal Workshop 2011 (PDF)
  Sovereignty in Question
  28 Jun 2011
• Lady Hale at Sir Henry Hodge Memorial Lecture 2011 (PDF)
  Equal Access to Justice in the Big Society
  27 Jun 2011
• Lady Hale at Barnard's Inn Reading 2011 (PDF)
  Beanstalk or Living Instrument? How tall can the ECHR grow?
  16 Jun 2011
• Lord Hope at Scottish Young Lawyers Association (PDF)
  Scots Law seen from South of the Border
  01 Apr 2011
• Lord Phillips at UCL Constitution Unit, launch of research project on The Politics of Judicial Independence (PDF)
  Judicial Independence & Accountability: A View from the Supreme Court
  08 Feb 2011

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2010

• Lord Hope at Newcastle Law School (PDF)
  Do we really need a Supreme Court?
  25 Nov 2010
• Lord Clarke at the Bracton Law Lecture, University of Exeter (PDF)
  The Supreme Court: One Year On
  11 Nov 2010
• Lord Hope's speech to the Contract Law Conference in Jersey (PDF)
  The Role of the Judge in developing Contract Law
  15 Oct 2010
• Paper presented by Lady Hale at The Supreme Court First Anniversary Seminar (PDF)
  Judgment writing in The Supreme Court
  30 Sep 2010
  
  
• Lecture by Lord Walker to Anglo-Australasian Lawyers Society at Owen Dixon Chambers, Melbourne (PDF)
  The English law of privacy - an evolving human right
  25 Aug 2010
• Lecture by Lord Walker at Victoria University, Wellington (PDF)
  Treating like cases alike and unlike cases differently: Some problems of antidiscrimination law
  09 Aug 2010
• Chief Executive, Jenny Rowe's speech to Government Historic Estates Unit, English Heritage Annual Conservation Seminar (PDF)
  Community Interest: Public Engagement in the Government Historic Estate
  28 Sep 2010
• Lecture given by Lord Hope on 24 June 2010 at Barnard's Inn Reading (PDF)
  The Creation of the Supreme Court – was it worth it?
  24 Jun 2010
• Lord Phillips at the Gresham Special Lecture at Lincoln's Inn (PDF)
  08 Jun 2010
• Lady Hale's speech to Salford Human Rights Conference (PDF)
  04 Jun 2010
• Lady Hale's speech at Georgetown University Law Center's commencement ceremony in Washington (PDF)
  23 May 2010
• Lady Hale's speech at the 10th Biennial International Conference of International Association of Women Judges, Seoul, South Korea (PDF)
  Terrorism and Global Security: Threats to the independence of the judiciary in a changing world
  12 May 2010
• Lady Hale at the Ethel Benjamin Commemorative Address, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin,
  New Zealand (PDF)
  Dignity
  07 May 2010
• Lady Hale at the F.W. Guest Memorial Lecture, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand (PDF)
  Justice for the Jains: Remedies for bad administration
  05 May 2010
• Lord Phillips at First Lord Alexander Weedon Lecture (PDF)
  19 Apr 2010
• Chief Executive, Jenny Rowe's speech to Government Legal Services in Edinburgh (PDF)
  26 Mar 2010
• Lord Hope's speech at the Bentham Club, University College London (PDF)
  In law, is procedure really that important?
  17 Mar 2010
• Lord Hope's speech at the Edinburgh Centre for Commercial Law (PDF)
  Taking the case to London - maybe it's not over after all
  12 Mar 2010

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2009

• Lady Hale at the Alba lecture (PDF)
  Women and Children Last? Gender, Childhood and Migration.
  18 Nov 2010
• Lord Kerr at Shoreditch House (PDF)
  London Collaborative Umbrella Group
  7 Oct 2009
• Chief Executive, Jenny Rowe (PDF)
  Legal Week Litigation Forum
  17 Sep 2009
  
  

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