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20/08/2021
Speech by the Lord Chief Justice: opening of the Newcastle Civil & Family Courts and Tribunals Centre
The Lord Chief Justice Lord Chancellor, fellow judges, members of Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service and honoured guests. Newcastle has been a centre of justice for many centuries. In 1991 a new combined court was opened on the banks of the River Tyne in which sat the Crown Court and some civil courts. But, […]
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20/08/2021
Lord Chief Justice officially opens Civil and Family Courts and Tribunal Centre in Newcastle
The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Burnett of Maldon, presided over the official opening of a new 25-court centre in Newcastle earlier today (Wednesday 14 July 2021). As part of a socially-distanced online opening ceremony for the Newcastle Civil & Family Courts and Tribunals Centre, a plaque has been unveiled in its atrium. While the centre […]
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20/08/2021
Reading by the Deputy Senior Presiding Judge: English Law and Descent into Complexity
The Rule of Law requires that the law is simple, clear and accessible. Yet English law has in become increasingly more complex, unclear and inaccessible. As modern life becomes more complex and challenging, we should pause and reflect whether this increasingly complexity is the right direction and what it means for fairness and access to […]
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20/08/2021
Keynote Speech by The Right Hon. Sir Geoffrey Vos for London International Disputes Week 2021
The Right Hon. Sir Geoffrey Vos gave a keynote speech on 10th May 2021 for London International Disputes Week 2021. The full speech can be read below.
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20/08/2021
Speech by the Chancellor of the High Court to the Scottish Civil Justice Conference
The Chancellor of the High Court, Sir Julian Flaux, spoke to the Judicial Institute for Scotland’s Civil Justice Conference on 10 May about the future shape of the work of the Business and Property Courts in England and Wales. You can read his speech below.
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20/08/2021
The Lord Chief Justice’s speech from the Association of District Judges Annual Seminar
On the 11 June the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Burnett of Maldon attended the Association of District Judges Annual Seminar. You can read his full speech from the event below.
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20/08/2021
Speech by the Master of the Rolls at the London School of Economics – Recovery or Radical Transformation: the effect of COVID-19 on Justice Systems
1. I am very grateful to the LSE’s European Institute and Department of Law for inviting me to deliver this talk. Even without COVID, it would not have taken me long to walk the 300 metres from the Royal Courts of Justice to the LSE to do so. Even the time taken for that short […]
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20/08/2021
Speech by Sir Julian Flaux, Chancellor of the High Court: The direction of travel
Sir Julian Flaux, Chancellor of the High Court, spoke to the Chancery Bar Association about his first thoughts on his new role and the likely priorities for the Business and Property Courts during the coming months. His speech can be read in full below.
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20/08/2021
Speech by Sir Geoffrey Vos, Master of the Rolls: Speech to Hull University
I am very grateful to Diana Wallis for having invited me to deliver this talk at the re-launch of Hull University’s Mediation Centre. It is very exciting to hear that the Centre will have a contract with Hull City Council so that students can observe and be engaged in the provision of the neutral third-party […]
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20/08/2021
Circuit Judge Appointment: Whitehouse QC
The Queen has appointed Sarah Alice Whitehouse QC to be a Circuit Judge on the advice of the Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable Robert Buckland QC MP and the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, the Right Honourable The Lord Burnett of Maldon. The Lord Chief Justice has deployed her to the South Eastern […]