It is important that we continue to promote these adverts as our local businesses need as much support as possible during these challenging times. In 1999, Hale followed Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss to become only the second woman to be appointed to the Court of Appeal (styled The Right Honourable Lady Justice Hale), entering the Privy Council at the same time. Boris Johnson wanted to prorogue Parliament, meaning that neither House could meet, debate, pass legislation, ask questions of ministers, or anything else.

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The ability to comment on our stories is a privilege, not a right, however, and that privilege may be withdrawn if it is abused or misused. The United Kingdom doesn’t have a written constitution, so all we [the courts] can do is try to make sure that the government sticks within the limits of what the law allows. A highly recommended read for those who are interested in law, skip past the first few chapters if you aren't a history buff. In October 2021 she unveiled a blue plaque in honour of Helena Normanton on 22 Mecklenburgh Square in London, saying " Helena Normanton was the pioneer of female barristers. You would have to get up earlier than I ever have to elicit any self-pity from Hale, but she will go as far as to say this was very hard on her mother, who “picked herself up and got a job of her own” to support her three daughters.Kent Honorary Graduate sworn in as first female president of the UK's Supreme Court – Inspire, Challenge, Excel".

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We’re content with a much more limited role and one of the reasons for this is that we’re not appointed because of our political affiliations. Brenda Hale, Rt Hon the Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE, was born in Yorkshire and studied Law at Girton College, Cambridge. As in previous volumes of the Yearbook, there are introductory essays examining the court’s role in terms of national and international jurisprudence and the legacy of its decision making in the overall development of the law. Ultimately the reforms put the views and wishes of children front and centre for the first time, and beefed up the attention courts must pay to domestic violence.A trailblazer, a staunch feminist within a man’s world of traditions and views, a wife and mother, a woman suffering from imposter syndrome. Given that she ended up as the most senior judge in the country and was a woman in amongst an otherwise largely elite group of men, her life has been a real journey. It is a sad indictment of our society, that when confronted with a highly intelligent, powerful woman, making a very important pronouncement that could have major ramifications for the future of our country – we first notice what she is wearing, then wonder where we could get a brooch like that, then wonder if it had any specific hidden meaning pro/anti Boris (it didn’t! After that I was in the House of Lords, being welcomed back by the Clerk of the Parliaments after ten years’ absence as a Justice of the Supreme Court, presenting my writ of summons in the Chamber and taking the oath, necessary if I want to take part in parliamentary business. Along the way she is one of a small number of women at Cambridge, an academic in Manchester, the first female law commissioner and thereafter (along with Lady Butler Sloss) making waves and paving the way for women in the highest judicial roles in the country.