Spider Woman: A Life – by the former President of the Supreme Court

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Hale was firmly in favour of abolishing blasphemy laws, and took a majority of the Law Commission with her. It didn’t happen, but the idea stayed around and was finally enacted in 2008, after which she attended, she writes, “a very jolly ‘bye bye blasphemy’ party held by the National Secular Society.” Lady Hale warns against the UK adopting a US-style Supreme Court". BBC News. 18 December 2019. Archived from the original on 29 October 2020 . Retrieved 22 October 2020. Amos, Mike (5 April 2018). "Judge not lest thou be judged, but the column's still much impressed by Lady Hale". Bolton News. Archived from the original on 27 December 2019 . Retrieved 27 December 2019. She is quite clear that the law should be paramount however, within that, she manages to look at laws through her own perspective. The fact that she is a rare female in this respect gives her views a different angle to others involved in the law. One thing that is quite clear almost from the start of her story is that she is a feminist. Maybe not in a radical sense but it is a fundamental part of her character.

Spider Woman: A Life – by the former President of the Supreme Spider Woman: A Life – by the former President of the Supreme

This is the story of how that little girl from a little school in a little village in North Yorkshire became the most senior judge in the United Kingdom. How she found that she could cope. And how all those other people who feel they are imposters can learn to cope too. Some of them may even be men.” Baroness Hale appointed Honorary Professor at UCL". UCL News. 17 December 2019. Archived from the original on 15 August 2020 . Retrieved 12 August 2020. About the Author: Brenda Hale, Rt Hon the Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE, was born in Yorkshire and studied Law at Girton College, Cambridge. She was called to the Bar in 1969 and spent almost twenty years in academia whilst also practising as a barrister for a short time. In 1984, Lady Hale became the first woman and the youngest person to be appointed to the Law Commission, where she oversaw critical reforms in family law and mental disability law. She also began sitting as a part time judge, was appointed a QC in 1989, and became a full time judge in the Family Division of the High Court of England and Wales in 1994. She was the first and only woman to become a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, joining the appellate committee of the House of Lords in 2004, when it was still the top court for the whole United Kingdom. She was the first woman to serve on the newly created Supreme Court, was appointed Deputy President in 2013, and its President from 2017 to 2020. She lives in Richmond, North Yorkshire. On the other hand, her mould-breaking feminism does not prevent her criticising the first woman Lord Chancellor, Liz Truss, over her abject failure to live up to her oath to protect the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary, when the Daily Mail savaged three High Court judges after their decision in the first Miller case. “It would have been so easy,” says Hale, helpfully drafting the form of words Truss might have used. It’s as though Truss has appeared before her as a less than promising student, whose essay is frankly not up to scratch. Baroness Hale of Richmond, former judge". Desert Island Discs. BBC Radio 4 . Retrieved 20 September 2021.

On 10 September 2015, Hale delivered the Caldwell Public Lecture at the University of Melbourne, Australia, on the topic "Protecting Human Rights in the UK Courts: What are we doing wrong?". [29] She adds: “Think of Royal weddings and the coronation but religion should not intrude into secular life, for example in prayers before council meetings. We are a society of many faiths and none and no one should feel excluded because they don’t belong.” It fell to the president to declare the verdict, and that day she selected one of several brooches her husband had given her. Her hands hovered over the butterfly, the bee, the frog, but eventually alighted on the spider. I really enjoyed this autobiography, purely because I find Lady Hale so inspirational on both a personal and a professional level. She was a trailblazer for women in the legal field and absolutely smashed the glass ceilings above her. Of all of her incredible achievements, I most resonated to her work in family law and domestic abuse, especially her influence on The Children Act 1989. I also enjoyed her memoirs of her previous cases and even her shoutout to her time in Lincoln (my hometown!).

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Her reflections were insightful and humble with great respect shown for her colleagues. I found it fascinating to have this window into a world I haven't explored before. It made me reflect on the complexity of legal cases, as she described some of the ones she has been involved in. She described longstanding practices and changes in the system- especially in relation to women. I must confess that there are parts of the book I couldn't understand completely in relation to legal processes and cases. This was my first exploration of the legal system and therefore I think that someone with a more comprehensive understanding of the system would grasp the elements aforementioned readily. From 1st July 2021, VAT will be applicable to those EU countries where VAT is applied to books - this additional charge will be collected by Fed Ex (or the Royal Mail) at the time of delivery. Shipments to the USA & Canada:

I do have a large number of brooches,” she says, with an air of weary resignation that she should be answering questions about fashion accessories but also with an amused fascination that anyone should wish to discuss such things with her. On 7 March 2019, Hale delivered the University of Cambridge Freshfields law lecture, which she entitled "Principle and Pragmatism in Developing Private Law". [30] Girton150 The Visitor's Lecture by the Rt Hon Baroness Hale of Richmond". Girton College. 2 May 2019.

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These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community. Brenda Hale is a superhero who embodies Parker's law that great power brings equivalent responsibility. Her wise, accessible memoir is essential, entertaining and inspirational reading for all lovers of freedom, equality and justice Shami Chakrabarti Hale became the first senior British judge to quit Hong Kong's top court after her fellow judge, Australian James Spigelman resigned as a Hong Kong judge in November 2020. [27] Significant lectures [ edit ] Mental Health Law (2017, with Penelope Gorman, Rachel Barrett and Jessica Jones, Sweet & Maxwell, ISBN 9780414051201

Inevitably the issue ended up in the Supreme Court, which upheld the divisional court ruling. Three years later, in 2019, the supreme court had an even more loaded case to decide, and by then Hale was its president. Brenda Marjorie Hale, Baroness Hale, DBE, QC, PC, FBA is a British legal academic, barrister, judge and a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. In 2009, when the Supreme Court was created, she became Deputy President and then, in 2017, the President which gave her, and her brooch, a date with destiny as Boris Johnson tried to send MPs off on holiday as the Brexit departure date was approaching. I was cross at the prejudice and sexism she encountered and full of admiration for her overcoming them. She sets out excellent (in my view incontrovertible) arguments for resisting patriarchal status quo. I was reminded that fish are unaware of the water in which they swim…. After becoming an assistant law lecturer at the Victoria University of Manchester (now the University of Manchester) in 1966 and lecturer in 1968, she was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn in 1969, topping the list in the bar finals for that year. [8] [9] [10]