The Supreme Court head who delivered historic ruling with spider's lethal bite via miholden
LONDON - Even before she delivered the momentous decision that crushed Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s suspension of parliament, Supreme Court president Lady Brenda Hale had brought a blast of fresh air to Britain’s stuffy and male-dominated institutions.
The Supreme Court has only been in existence since 2009. Never in its short history had it weighed such a momentous case. And never had Britons been treated to so many modern trappings at a core establishment institution. “I must repeat that this case is not about when or on what terms the United Kingdom leaves the European Union,” she told the court as hearings finished last Thursday.
Unlike most contemporaries, she was brought up in northern England and educated at a state school, was an academic lawyer specialising in family and welfare issues, and spent most of her career as a pioneer in her field. “So why is that ‘an agenda’? Quite simply, because we have not yet achieved the equality we seek in the law, let alone in life.”
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