Wrenched from the House of Lords amid a political coup, the UK’s Supreme Court has endured an eventful three years. Suzanna Ring and Alex Novarese recount the Court’s history, the attempts to create a clear identity and assess its successes and failures
It was Thursday 12 June 2003. The most senior judges of England and Wales and members of the Lord Chancellor’s Department had escaped London for the Cotswolds – Minster Lovell, to be exact – for a strategic discussion about the administration of justice at the suggestion of then Master of the Rolls, Lord Phillips (pictured, right).
