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

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Lady Hale delivering the verdict on the prorogation of parliament, September 2019. Photograph: Supreme Court/EPA We have a free press in this country, and you are free to write and publish what you like. But it is my duty, as the member of the government sworn to defend the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary, to tell you that you are wrong. These are not enemies of the people but senior members of the judiciary deciding the case in accordance with the law…”

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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.”London School of Economics (21 February 2018). "LSE honorary degrees". Archived from the original on 16 July 2019 . Retrieved 6 November 2019. 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. Honorary Graduates - Graduation". Archived from the original on 24 January 2020 . Retrieved 24 January 2020.

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Statement by Judiciary on Baroness Hale's term of office as non-permanent CFA judge". Judiciary of Hong Kong. 4 June 2021. Archived from the original on 4 June 2021. The Family, Law & Society (with David Pearl, Elizabeth Cooke, Daniel Monk, 2009, Oxford University Press) ISBN 9780199204243 Berglof, Annie Maccoby (12 August 2011). "Taking tea in Wonderland". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 11 August 2018 . Retrieved 11 August 2018.We were deciding whether it was within the powers of the government to advise Her Majesty to suspend Parliament for an inordinate amount of time, five weeks, when the normal length of prorogation is three to five days, at a particularly crucial time in the nation’s history,” she says. “We weren’t deciding about Brexit – that had already been decided. 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. A highly recommended read for those who are interested in law, skip past the first few chapters if you aren't a history buff.

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The autobiography of Baroness Hale of Richmond, published this week, is entitled Spider Woman, an allusion to the brooch, although she has also spent her 50-year career untangling the complex threads of the knottiest legal webs to produce judgements of great clarity and humanity.Brenda Hale's story is extraordinary. She has been a pioneer as a woman... Spider woman and agent of change Harriet Harman As a woman aspiring barrister, I can't help but feel like an imposter most of the time when I am in the midst of/ working towards pursuing a career at the English Bar. However, it is quite reassuring to know that it is normal to experience this but one's progress in achieving success should never be hindered by it. 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.” Yonette Joseph; Ceylan Yeginsu (24 September 2019). "Lady Hale, U.K. Supreme Court Judge, Speaks Calmly and Brings Down the Hammer". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 25 September 2019 . Retrieved 24 September 2019.

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

Regular viewers know that I often wear a brooch – usually a creature – to liven up our normally quite sober dress but that it has no obvious connection to the matter in hand. … There was no hidden message in the brooch I wore that day, but perhaps I should have foreseen that the public and the media would look for one.” As 'a little girl from a little school in a little village in North Yorkshire', she only went into the law because her headteacher told her she wasn't clever enough to study history. She became the most senior judge in the country.A year or two after that, I found myself seated next to her at a National Secular Society lunch, and said I had not realised she was a fellow atheist. Not at all, she told me. She was, she said, a practising Christian, a devout member of the Church of England.