What will happen to Privy Council cases?
We continue to hear them as before, but in the same building rather than in Downing Street. From our point of view, they add a welcome touch of diversity to our work and from their point of view, I hope that we provide a good and useful service to those countries which still use us. Is the retirement age of 75 a reasonable compromise? At present, the question is whether it should become 75 for all Supreme Court Justices, rather than 75 for some and 70 for others, depending on when they were first appointed to the Bench. The Parliamentarians have found arguments either way. How useful were your 10 years on the Law Commission? I believe that they, along with my experience as an academic lawyer, were and are very useful. They enabled me to see the bigger picture, beyond the details and merits of the individual case. Advocates quite understandably go in for enormous detail. No stone is left unturned or avenue unexplored in the search for the winning argument. That is as it should be, as th
