The judicial arm of the House of Lords is still on course to be transmuted into the Supreme Court of the UK in October 2009.
The judicial arm of the House of Lords is still on course to be transmuted into the Supreme Court of the in October 2009. It will be interesting to see whether the working methods and adjudication standards of the top court will in any way change once it moves across
Parliament Square and leaves the trappings of the behind. Meanwhile the law lords continue to ply their trade as an appellate committee. This article gives a snapshot of their output during 2007.The lords of appeal issued 58 decisions ([2007] UKHL 1 to [2007] UKHL 58), two more than in 2006 but some way short of the record high of 74 in 2005. For present purposes a “decision” means a case with a single judgment or set of judgments, even though it may involve more than one appeal. In fact the 58 decisions in 2007 embraced a total of 68 appeals. Conversely, conjoined appeals are sometimes heard together
