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Sunday 20 October 2019

LADY HALE, PRESIDENT OF THE SUPREME COURT AND FEMINIST ACTIVIST



LADY HALE, PRESIDENT OF THE SUPREME COURT AND FEMINIST ACTIVIST


Many lawyers and constitutional commentators have pointed out that Lady Hale, the President of the Supreme Court, who delivered the Judgment in the proroguing of Parliament case, and her colleagues in the Supreme Court, invented a completely new basis on which “Proceedings in Parliament” would be dealt with by the courts.  They completely ignored the legally and constitutionally correctly traditional Judgment of the High Court.  

I thought however that it was worth highlighting Lady Hale’s comments that were reported approvingly in the Sunday Times on September 29th under the headline of “Take the right partner to be supreme at law” by Nicholas Hellen.  He writes about Lady Hale and her political views from a speech that she made at the launch of “Cambridge Women in Law” in which he says that she “spent an hour dispensing her thoughts on how women can succeed in the male dominated world of the judiciary”. 

The article reports Lady Hale as saying:- “When I came to Cambridge, I knew it was a privilege.  I bet every woman in this room knew it was a privilege to be here.  But I was surrounded by men who thought they were entitled to be here.  And that is one of the things that we still have to go on fighting against.  The male sense of entitlement.”

She spoke of loosening the grip of the “quadrangle-to-quadrangle-to-quadrangle boys”.  A reference to a man who goes from a public school to Oxbridge and then to the Inns of Court “we haven’t got the history of people of our sex doing the job for generation after generation”, she told the audience. 

Hale said:- “Feminism is believing in equality, equality for women and the validity of women’s experiences.  That is how I define feminism. 

Men can be feminists too and there are lots of them and there are loads of women who aren’t.  Those are probably the people that we most have to contend with rather than men because they are in many ways the real problem rather than men.”

She also spoke of sometimes lacking in confidence, and talked of how Gina Miller, the businesswoman and campaigner who brought the case to the Supreme Court, dressed to help give her the confidence to fend off “people’s bigoted assumptions”. 

Hale suggested that this was a metaphor, “throwing light on this problem that women generally lack confidence”. 

The article finishes by saying that Lady Hale has asked Mary Arden, who has joined the Supreme Court:- “I have asked her please, please when I retire, would she keep up the good work”. 

Whatever you think of Lady Hale’s views, the one certainty it seems to me is that she is demonstrating yet again where on the spectrum her political values come from.  So she is vividly demonstrating that the Blairite creation of the Supreme Court has worked well from its creator’s point of view in entrenching Blairism into the Constitution.  It also vividly demonstrates the general effectiveness of the Left’s “Long March through the Institutions”. 

What do you think? 

16 comments:

  1. I think she is a disgrace,and a dangerous women, we use too have a brilliant English law .people all over the world looked up to English law, now it’s looked at as a joke , it can’t look at your case properly,what have we got! The judges are not fit for perpose, this will go down in history, we have lo#t so much!

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    1. Yes i agree with you she is a disgrace and has let her country down just like the most of them 😕

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    2. Lady Hale is another traitor to her country

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  2. She must stand down and the Ruling over BoJo and Brexit made void and null!!! She is biased and a remainer!! There is NO WAY she could have given a fair hearing to this case!!!

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  3. What can the people do about it.

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  4. The blatancy of the elite now is such that they have scant regard for the people not common law. This woman typifies the hubris of the current crop of over indulged under challenged liberals that think their microcosm is the way for all which is is most certainly not.

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  5. Terrible Judgement and an insult to spiders to be linked.

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  6. Intellectually able bluestocking; politically dangerous, if not positively subversive.

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  7. How do we get more people with integrity into positions of power, such as the supreme court or the speakers chair? Thank goodness for the Queen.

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    1. It might have to come down to war. Civil procedures are failing and will continue to fail. War may be the only solution to resolve disputes created through procedural chicanery.

      Francis

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  8. Need to set space aside for her too on Tower Hill

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  9. Robin, I never thought that it was possible for anyone to become a barrister never mind being a Supreme Court Judge without any public practice experience until now. Academic lawyers have NO real experience at resolving legal disputes. Theory and practice are not and never will be the same. She should be removed from her position with immediate effect.

    Can anyone become a Chartered Accountant without first passing a training contract? No and it is no wonder why accountants are laughing at the legal profession now.

    For years accountants have been taunting the Personnel/HR profession for being liberal, politically correct, out of touch, but now they are directing their derision onto lawyers.

    It is no wonder why websites like Solicitors From Hell exist, thanks to the arbitrary decisions of a politically motivated incompetent fake lawyer. Lady Hagg should resign and stop turning the legal profession into a joke it has now become.

    Francis

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  10. The problem is not 'Lady' Hale, the problem is too many like 'Lady' Hale. Which points to our judicial appointments procedure

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  11. If Conservatives are in power long enough, perhaps this 'Blairite' System will be reorganised..

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  12. In light of these comments made by Lady Hale, the judgment overall should be annulled/called in or whatever process is available in that it's an unsafe bias judgement. Of course notwithstanding that Politics should be kept out of the judicial arena, Lady Justice can now see it appears.

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  13. Who would have believed that a network of home grown cultural Marxist lawyers could militarily defeat the UK without firing a shot. They manage to Prosecute armed service personnel for war crimes while protecting the the most evil and brutal terrorists who fight against us. They managed to conceal the identities of all of the mainly Pakistani Origin child rape gangs but put Tommy Robinson into prison for merely pointing out the obvious.

    This is Fourth Generation Warfare and no one knows what to do. Stealth Wars appear to be the most effective. Hitler must be jealous.

    Francis

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