Speeches
Speeches
The Supreme Court Justices are among the highest profile legal professionals in the world and leaders in their field. They are invited regularly to speak on topics including education, private law and climate change at a wide range of events.
A selection of their speeches, related to the Supreme Court, are published on this page, by year.
2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009
2024
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Why does the UK Supreme Court matter for Northern Ireland?
Royal Courts of Justice, Belfast
13 November 2024 -
Looking forward to legal comity or divergence
La Ligue Internationale du Droit de la Concurrence
Annual Congress, Lincoln's Inn, London
8 November 2024 -
The Work of a Justice of the UK Supreme Court
Oxford Union
5 November 2024 -
Why does the UK Supreme Court matter for Scotland?
University of Strathclyde
28 October 2024 -
Speech at the Charnley Law Dinner
Hughes Hall, Cambridge
14 October, 2024 -
Introduction and Comment on Lord Hodge Lecture
Lecture at the UK Supreme Court's 15th Anniversary event at the Senedd, Cardiff
11 October, 2024 -
The Supreme Court fifteen years on: continuity and change
Lecture at the UK Supreme Court's 15th Anniversary event at the Senedd, Cardiff
11 October, 2024 -
Speech to the Bar Council's Employed Bar
Gray's INN
10 October, 2024 -
The Free Sea
Address at the Opening Ceremony for the Advanced LLM Programme, University of Leiden
September 2024 -
Judicial Review Methodology in the Automated State
Presentation for the Conference on Automation in Public Governance - Theory, Practice and Problems
September 2024 -
Purpose in Statutory Interpretation
Oxford University and University of Notre Dame Seminar on Public Law Theory
19 September 2024 -
Smart Contracts - Opportunities and Challenges
Conference of the Banking & Financial Services Law Association, Gold Coast
6 September 2024 -
Asset Recovery and the Rule of Law
Caribbean Judicial Civil Recovery Conference, Miami
3 September 2024 -
Contractual Interpretation - an Anglo/Australian Journey
Banco Court of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
3 September 2024 -
Breathing Life Into the Law
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
29 May 2024 -
Harris Society Annual Lecture: 26 April 2024
Keble College, Oxford
26 April 2024 -
Competition Law in the Supreme Court: The First 15 Years
10th Sir Jeremy Lever Lecture
26 April 2024 -
How do Judges Decide Cases in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council?
University of the West Indies, Faculty of Law 2024
24 April 2024 -
Precedent and Overruling in the UK Supreme Court
Lord Toulson Memorial Lecture 2024
20 March 2024 -
The Sordid Controversies of Litigants? Why and When Facts Matter
The Neill Law Lecture 2024
23 February 2024 -
An Evolving Institution: The work of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
The Queen's Distinguished Lecture in Law
21 February 2024 -
Liability for Mental Injury
Chichester University Lecture
19 January 2024
2023
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The Interface Between Contract and Equity
Equity Conference 2023
19 December 2023 -
Keynote speech
IBA Asset Recovery Conference
8 December 2023 -
On the Job? The Law on Status in a Gig Economy
The BACFI Denning Lecture 2023
7 December 2023 -
The Law and AI: where are we going?
Lecture at De Montfort University, Leicester
30 November 2023 -
Oral Hearings in the United Kingdom Courts: Past, Present and Future
Legal Training and Research Institute of Japan
29 November 2023 -
Exploring the Interface Between the Common Law of Tort and Statute Law
Annual Richard Davies Lecture for the Personal Injuries Bar Association
A revised version has been published as 'Exploring the Interface Between the Common Law of Tort and Statute Law' (2024) Journal of Personal Injury Law 3
29 November 2023 -
Retained EU Law Purposive Interpretation - UKAEL Lecture
Annual Lecture of the UK Association for European Law
A revised version has been published as 'Retained EU Law: purposive interpretation when the constitutional architecture changes' (2024) 49 European Law Review 3
20 November 2023 -
Keble College Oxford
A View from the Orthodox Camp
28 October 2023 -
At a Glance conference
Some Questions of Proof and Probability
11 October 2023 -
The Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, The Cambridge Lectures 2023
The art and science of judicial fact-finding
14 July 2023 -
The Developing Jurisprudence of the Supreme Court on Convention Rights
Keynote speech at SPLG Conference
A revised version has been published as 'The Developing Jurisprudence of the Supreme Court on Convention Rights' [2024] Public Law 444
5 June 2023 -
Recourse to the courts in climate litigation cases in the United Kingdom
Conference for the Presidents of Constitutional Courts of Europe, Berlin
4 May 2023 -
Information Law and Automated Governance
Keynote address at Information Law Conference
A revised version has been published as 'Information Law and Automated Governance' (2023) 38 Judicial Review 280
24 April 2023 -
Welcoming Remarks
Launch and Inauguration of the Council of the Sikhs in Law Association at the Supreme Court
21 April 2023 -
Presentation at International Workshop on Default Rules in Private Law
Default Rules in the Common Law: Substantive Rules and Precedent
A revised version has been published as 'Default Rules in the Common Law: Substantive Rules and Precedent' in B. Hacke and J Ungerer (eds), Default Rules in Private Law (2024)
24 March 2023 -
Cambridge Freshfields Annual Law Lecture
Constitutional values in the common law of obligations
A revised version has been published as 'Constitutional Values in the Common Law of Obligations' [2024] CLJ 132
10 March 2023 -
Neill Lecture 2023
Seven Lessons from Inside the UK Supreme Court
24 February 2023 -
Remarks at a Reception to celebrate the birthday of Emperor Naruhito
7 February 2023 -
International Conference on Implementation of the Rule of Law
Departing from Precedent: The Experience of the UK Supreme Court
20 January 2023
2022
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The Burrell Lecture for the Competition Law Association
When government sets prices: what can history teach us?
28 November 2022 -
Ceremonial Opening of the JCPC Hearings
14 November 2022 -
The Illegality Defence after Patel v Mirza
The Professor Jill Poole Memorial Lecture
24 October 2022 -
Keynote address
At a Glance conference
12 October 2022 -
Guildhall Lecture
The Rule of Law, the Courts and the British Economy
4 October 2022 -
The Annual Tort Law Research Group Lecture
Pure economic loss in the law of tort: the history and theory of assumption of responsibility
A revised version has been published as 'An "Opaque Conclusionary Label"? Assumption of Responsibility and Pure Economic Loss', chapter 10 in Burns et al (eds), Torts on Three Continents: Honouring Jane Stapleton (2024)
26 September 2022 -
Sir Christopher Staughton Memorial Lecture 2022
Statutory Interpretation in the Courts Today
15 August 2022 -
Public Law Conference
Long Waves of Constitutional Principle in the Common Law
A revised version has been published as 'Long Waves of Constitutional Principle in the Common Law', chapter 11 in J Varuhas (ed), The Making and Re-Making of Public Law (2024)
19 July 2022 -
Keynote Speech
Expert Witness Institute Online Conference 2022
30 June 2022 -
Barnard’s Inn talk
What Makes A Good Judge?
30 June 2022 -
Donoghue v Stevenson
90th Anniversary Conference
6 June 2022 -
United Kingdom Association For European Law Annual Lecture
1966 and All That: Changing Our Minds in a Post–Brexit World
25 May 2022 -
The Neill Law Lecture 2022
Time Present and Time Past: Legal Development and Legal Tradition in the Common Law
23 May 2022 -
Oxford Union talk
12 May 2022 -
London International Disputes Week
Keynote Address
11 May 2022 -
Modern Studies in Property Law Conference
Keynote Lecture
A revised version has been published as 'Proprietary Estoppel: Great Expectations and Detrimental Reliance', chapter 10 in N Mrockova, A Nair and L Rostill (eds), Modern Studies in Property Law, Vol 12 (2023)
29 March 2022
2021
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The Lionel Cohen Lecture
Judges and Academics, and the Endless Road to Unattainable Perfection
6 December 2021
Please note, this speech has also been published in the Israel Law Review (published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2022, see pages 50-63). -
Judicial decision-making: case studies from Biblical times and now
UK Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists
1 December 2021 -
Statutory Interpretation: A Collaboration between Democratic Legislatures and the Courts
Address to the Government Legal Service for Scotland
10 November 2021 -
What is the point of commercial law?
The Fourth Jonathan Hirst Commercial Law Lecture
2 November 2021 -
The Scope of Judicial Law-making in Constitutional Law and Public Law
27 October 2021
This work was first published in Judicial Review 18 October 2021 -
Talk at a workshop on Scholars of Contract Law
Professor Sir Guenter Treitel (1928 – 2019)
6 October 2021 -
Annual Conference of Judges of the Superior Courts in Ireland
Judgment Writing: A Personal Perspective
21 September 2021 -
ALBA Annual Lecture
A Numbers Game? Statistics in Public Law Cases
5 July 2021 -
Cour de Cassation seminar
Being a Supreme Court Justice in 2030
27 April 2021 -
New Zealand Senior Courts Judges' Conference,
Implications of Brexit and COVID-19 for UK Law
19 April 2021 -
Cyprus Judicial Conference
National Experience - Change of civil procedures in the UK
10 March 2021 -
Lord Lloyd-Jones at the biennial Law Conference of the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol (National Welsh Language College) hosted by Cardiff University.
English version | Welsh version
4 March 2021
2020
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Association of Costs Lawyers Online Seminar
What can the pandemic teach us about the costs of civil litigation?
13 November 2020 -
ALBA annual lecture
Proportionality review in appellate courts: a wrong turning?
A reviese version has been published as 'Proportionality Review in Appellate Courts' (2021) 26 Judicial Review 40
November 2020 -
Covid, continuity and change: the courts' response to the pandemic.
British Irish Commercial Bar Association Annual Law Forum
05 November 2020 -
COMBAR lecture for the 125th anniversary of the Commercial Court.
The Commercial Court: Past, Present, and Future
13 October 2020 -
Lord Hodge at the Dover House Lecture, London
Technology and the Law
10 March 2020
2019
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Lady Hale at the BACFI Denning Lecture 2019, Athenaeum, Pall Mall, London
Women in law - the next 100 years
4 December 2019 -
Lord Sales at the Denning Society Lecture 2019
In Defence of Legislative Intention
A revised version has been published as 'In Defence of Legislative Intention' (2019) 48 Australian Bar Review 6
18 November 2019 -
Lady Hale at the Scarman Lecture 2019, Law Commission, London
30 Years of the Children Act 1989
13 November 2019 -
Lord Sales at the Sir Henry Brooke Lecture for BAILII, London
Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and the Law
A revised version has been published as 'Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and the Law' (2020) 25 Judicial Review 46
12 November 2019 -
Lord Briggs at the Sultan Azlan Shah Law Lecture, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
International Commerce: Mapping the Law in a Borderless World
5 November 2019 -
Lord Hodge at Max Planck Institute of Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, Germany
The scope of judicial law-making in the common law tradition
28 October 2019 -
Lady Hale at the Sir David Williams Lecture 2019, Cambridge
Principle and Pragmatism in Public Law
22 October 2019 -
Lady Hale at the Dame Frances Patterson Memorial Lecture 2019, Middle Temple
Law and Politics: A Reply to Reith
8 October 2019 -
Lord Sales at the Lehane Memorial Lecture, Sydney
The Interface between Contract and Equity
28 August 2019 -
Lord Sales at the Anglo-Australasian Law Society, Sydney
Directors' duties and climate change: Keeping pace with environmental challenges
27 August 2019 -
Lady Arden at the Trusts and Wealth Management Conference, Singapore
Asian Wealth and the Global Context 2019
Family Trusts Today
1 August 2019 -
Lord Carnwath at the Statute Law Society
The journey to fiscal enlightenment
10 July 2019 -
Lady Hale at the International Centre for Family Law, Policy and Practice
What is a 21st Century Family?
1 July 2019 -
Lady Hale at the International Centre for Family Law, Policy and Practice
What is a 21st Century Family?
1 July 2019 -
Lord Carnwath at the Institute of International and European Affairs, Dublin
Human Rights and the Environment
20 June 2019 -
Lord Kitchin at UKIPO - WIPO Conference
Keynote Speech
18 June 2019 -
Lady Hale at the Grotius Lecture, Bank of England, London
Women's Rights Worldwide
12 June 2019 -
Lady Hale at the Impact and Law Reform Conference, London
Impact in the Courts
11 June 2019 -
Lady Hale at Girton College, University of Cambridge
100 Years of Women in the Law
2 May 2019 -
Lady Hale at the Northern Ireland Children's Law Centre
The Rights of Disabled Children
12 April 2019 -
Lady Hale at the Legal Action Group, London
Legal Aid at 70
5 April 2019 -
Lord Hodge at the British Irish Commercial Bar Association, Edinburgh
Law and technological change
4 April 2019 -
Lord Sales at the Lecture for the Chancery Bar Association, Lincoln's Inn, London
Fraud on a Power: the interface between contract and equity
A revised version has been published as 'Use of Powers for Proper Purposes in Private Law' (2020) 136 LWG 384
2 April 2019 -
Lady Hale at the Macfadyen Lecture 2019, Edinburgh
What is the United Kingdom Supreme Court for?
28 March 2019 -
Lord Reed at the Sixth Annual Regional Rule of Law Forum for South East Europe, Dubrovnik, Croatia
The Protection of Children's Rights under the ECHR
22 March 2019 -
Lady Hale at King's College London
100 Years of Women in the Law: From Bertha Cave to Brenda Hale
20 March 2019 -
Lord Hodge at The First Edinburgh FinTech Law Lecture, University of Edinburgh
The Potential and Perils of Financial Technology: Can the Law adapt to cope?
14 March 2019 -
Lady Hale at the Cambridge Freshfields Lecture 2019
Principle and Pragmatism in Developing Private Law
7 March 2019 -
Lord Reed at The Bentham Association Lecture 2019, University College London
The Supreme Court Ten Years On
6 March 2019 -
Lady Hale at the Woolf Institute, Cambridge
Religious Dress
28 February 2019 -
Lord Reed at the Inaugural Dover House Lecture, London
Scotland's Devolved Settlement and the Role of the Courts
27 February 2019 -
Lady Hale gives the Worcester Lecture 2019 at Worcester Cathedral
Moral Courage in the Law
21 February 2019
2018
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Lady Hale at the Millicent Fawcett Memorial Lecture 2018, London
On Courage
13 December 2018 -
Lady Hale at the Caroline Weatherill Memorial Lecture 2018, London
Human Rights and Family Life in the United Kingdom and Islands
5 December 2018 -
Lady Hale at the Birmingham Law Society and Holdsworth Club
Celebrating Women's Rights
29 November 2018 -
Lord Sumption at the Annual Bar and Young Bar Conference 2018, London
Keynote speech
24 November 2018 -
Lord Hodge at the North Strathclyde Sheriffdom Conference, Paisley
Preserving judicial independence in an age of populism
23 November 2018 -
Lady Hale gives the Michael Ryle Lecture at the House of Lords, London
Should the Law Lords have left the House of Lords?
14 November 2018 -
Lord Briggs at the Denning Society Annual Lecture, Lincoln's Inn, London
Equity in Business
8 November 2018 -
Lady Hale at the British Institute of Human Rights Annual Lecture, London
Celebrating 70 years of the Universal Declaration and 20 years of the Human Rights Act
7 November 2018 -
Lady Hale at the Society of Legal Scholars Centenary Lecture 2018, University of Essex
All Human Beings? Reflections on the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights
2 November 2018 -
Lady Hale at the Oxford Equality Lecture 2018
Equality and Human Rights
29 October 2018 -
Lady Hale at the Law Society of Scotland Annual Conference 2018, Edinburgh
The Contribution of Scottish Cases to Developing United Kingdom
26 October 2018 -
Lord Hodge at the East China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai, China
Financial Technology: Opportunities and Challenges to Law and Regulation
26 October 2018 -
Lord Hodge at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
The involvement of the public in the criminal process in the United Kingdom
24 October 2018 -
Lord Lloyd-Jones gives the British Institute of International and Comparative Law Grotius Lecture, Goodenough College, London
Forty Years On: State Immunity and the State Immunity Act 1978
18 October 2018 -
Lord Carnwath at the Justice Human Rights Law Conference 2018, London
Human Rights and the Environment
10 October 2018 -
Lord Wilson at the Howard J. Trienens Lecture
at the Northwestern University, Chicago
Our Human Rights: A Joint Effort?
25 September 2018 -
Lady Hale at the Scottish Public Law Group 2018, Edinburgh
Devolution and The Supreme Court - 20 Years On
14 June 2018 -
Lady Hale at the Royal College of Psychiatrists Annual Conference, Birmingham
Is it time for yet another Mental Health Act?
24 June 2018 -
Lady Hale at Nuffield Foundation: 75th Anniversary Lecture, UCL Faculty of Laws, London
Challenges in the justice system and the contribution of empirical research
14 May 2018 -
Lady Hale at the Sir Nicholas Wall Memorial Lecture 2018, Gray's Inn, London
Openness and Privacy in Family Proceedings
10 May 2018 -
Lady Hale at Resolution's 30th National Conference, Bristol
Keynote Speech
20 April 2018 -
Lady Hale at the University of Ottawa
Reflecting on the Legacy of Chief Justice McLachlin
10 April 2018 -
Lord Lloyd-Jones at the Association of London Welsh Lawyers
Codification of Welsh Law
8 March 2018 -
Lord Carnwath at the Judicial Colloquium on Climate Change and the Law in Lahore, Pakistan
Climate Justice and the Global Pact
26 February 2018 -
Lady Hale at the Bristol Alumni Association Lecture 2018
Dishonesty
23 February 2018 -
Lord Lloyd-Jones at the Conseil d'Etat, Paris, France
General Principles of Law in International Law and Common Law
16 February 2018 -
Lady Hale at the 2018 Pankhurst Lecture, University of Manchester
2018 - A Year of Anniversaries
8 February 2018 -
Lady Hale at the Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture in Oxford
Religious Dress
25 January 2018 -
Lord Briggs at the P.R.I.M.E. Finance conference, The Hague, The Netherlands
Dispute Resolution in Uncertain Times
22 January 2018
2017
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Lord Hodge at the Edinburgh Tax Network Annual Lecture Parliament House, Edinburgh
The RFC case, tax avoidance schemes and statutory interpretation: offside goals, yellow cards and own goals
14 December 2017 -
Lord Mance at the 40th Annual FA Mann Lecture at Middle Temple Hall, London
Justiciability
27 November 2017 -
Lord Sumption at the Personal Injuries Bar Association Annual Lecture, London
Abolishing Personal Injuries Law - A project
16 November 2017 -
Lord Reed at the Centre for Private Law, University of Edinburgh
Comparative Law in the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
*Please note that an enhanced version of this manuscript will appear in Rabels Zeitschrift, Issue 3/2018 (July)
13 October 2017 -
Lord Hodge at the Middle Temple Guest Lecture, London
Expert Evidence: use, abuse and boundaries
9 October 2017 -
Lady Hale at the Constitutional Law Summer School, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Judges, Power and Accountability
11 August 2017 -
Lady Hale at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies' Cambridge Lectures 2017
The United Kingdom Constitution on the move
7 July 2017
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Lord Neuberger gives welcome address to Australian Bar Association Biennial Conference, London
Access to Justice
3 July 2017
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Lord Neuberger gives the keynote speech for the 'At a Glance' family law conference 2017
The Plight of the Unmarried
21 June 2017
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Lord Neuberger at the International Insolvency Institute Annual Conference 2017, London
The Supreme Court, the Privy Council and International Insolvency
19 June 2017
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Lord Neuberger addresses JNet: The Jewish Civil Servants' Network
The Jewish history of the Supreme Court
17 May 2017
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Lord Neuberger at the Northern Ireland Personal Injury Bar's Inaugural Conference, County Down
Implications of Tort Law decisions
13 May 2017
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Lord Sumption gives the Harris Society Annual Lecture, Keble College, Oxford
A Question of Taste: The Supreme Court and the Interpretation of Contracts
8 May 2017
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Lord Wilson gives Patron's lecture at the University of Bristol Law Club
Changes over the centuries in the financial consequences of divorce
20 March 2017
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Lord Neuberger at a fundraising breakfast for the Personal Support Unit
Reflections on significant moments in the role of the Judiciary
16 March 2017
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Lord Mance gives a lecture during the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council's Fourth Sitting in The Bahamas
The Role of Judges in a Representative Democracy
24 February 2017
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Lord Mance gives lecture at King's College, London
International Law in the UK Supreme Court
13 February 2017
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Lord Neuberger gives the Neill Lecture 2017 at the Oxford Law Faculty
Twenty Years a Judge: Reflections and Refractions
10 February 2017
2016
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Lord Neuberger gives the Bar Council Law Reform Lecture 2016
The Role of the Supreme Court Seven Years On - Lessons Learnt
21 November 2016 -
Lord Neuberger gives the Mitchell Lecture 2016, Edinburgh
Some thoughts on judicial reasoning across jurisdictions
11 November 2016 -
Lady Hale gives the 30th Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture, Kuala Lumpur
The Supreme Court: Guardian of the Constitution?
9 November 2016 -
Lord Hodge gives the Denning Society lecture at Lincoln's Inn
Upholding the rule of law: how we preserve judicial independence in the United Kingdom
7 November 2016 -
Lord Neuberger gives the Lord Rodger Memorial Lecture 2016 in Glasgow
The constitutional role of the Supreme Court in the context of devolution in the UK
14 October 2016 -
Lord Sumption addresses Administrative Appeals Chamber/Immigration and Asylum Chamber judges at the Rolls Building, London
The Historian as Judge
6 October 2016 -
Lord Neuberger addresses the Hong Kong Competition Association
The Implementation of Competition Law in Hong Kong and the Role of Judges
13 September 2016 -
Lady Hale at the Society of Legal Scholars Conference 2016
Legislation or judicial law reform: where should judges fear to tread?
7 September 2016 -
Lord Neuberger at the Singapore Panel on Judicial Ethics and Dilemmas on the Bench
The Role of the Judge: Umpire in a Contest, Seeker of the Truth or Something in Between?
19 August 2016 -
Lord Neuberger at the Singapore Conference on Protecting Business and Economic Interests: Contemporary Issues in Tort Law
Some Thoughts on Principles Governing the Law of Torts
19 August 2016 -
Lord Neuberger at the School of Law, Singapore Management University
Express and Implied Terms in Contracts
19 August 2016 -
Lord Neuberger at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
Has the identity of the English Common Law been eroded by EU Laws and the European Convention On Human Rights?
18 August 2016 -
Lord Carnwath at the Eighth Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations: Revolutions in Private Law
People and principle in the developing law
19 July 2016 -
Lord Neuberger gives a lecture in memory of John Gilling at St Mary's Bourne Street, London
The Grace of God is in Courtesy?
22 June 2016 -
Lord Neuberger gives the Lord Slynn Memorial Lecture 2016
Ethics and advocacy in the twenty-first century
15 June 2016 -
Lady Hale at York University, Festival of Ideas 2016
Human Rights and Social Justice
9 June 2016 -
Lord Sumption at the 'At a Glance' family law conference
Family law at a distance
8 June 2016 -
Lord Neuberger at the British Irish Commercial Bar Association Law Forum
Technology and the Law
21 April 2016 -
Lord Neuberger at the World Bar Conference 2016
Keynote closing address to the International Council of Advocates and Barristers
16 April 2016 -
Lord Neuberger addresses a breakfast meeting held in support of 'Youth at Risk'
The scope and role of the Legal Professional Privilege and its proper place in the context of corporate internal investigations
9 March 2016 -
Lord Neuberger at the Northern Ireland Assembly Committee for Justice
Justice Innovation Programme Lecture
3 March 2016
2015
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Lord Neuberger at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies Conference 2015
UK Supreme Court decisions on private and commercial law: The role of public policy and public interest
4 December 2015 -
Lord Carnwath at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
Climate Change and the Courts
26 November 2015 -
Lord Reed gives the Denning Lecture to the Bar Association for Commerce, Finance and Industry
Cyberspace and the Law
24 November 2015 -
Lord Neuberger at The Royal Society, London
Science and Law: Contrasts and Cooperation
24 November 2015 -
Lord Clarke gives the William Miller Commercial Law Annual Lecture, Edinburgh Law School
What shall we do about fraudulent claims?
20 November 2015 -
Lady Hale at the Association of Lawyers for Children Annual Conference 2015, Manchester
Are we nearly there yet?
20 November 2015 -
Lord Sumption gives the Stair Society Annual Lecture, Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh
Anglo-Scottish Relations, 1290-1513, and the Beginnings of International Law
14 November 2015 -
Lord Sumption gives the James Wood Lecture, University of Glasgow
The right to a court: Article 6 of the Human Rights Convention
13 November 2015 -
Lady Hale at the University of Birmingham
Appointments to the Supreme Court
6 November 2015 -
Lord Mance gives the 30th Annual Lecture organised by The School of International Arbitration and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Arbitration - a Law unto itself?
4 November 2015 -
Lord Reed gives the Scrymgeour Lecture, University of Dundee
Triremes and Steamships: Scholars, Judges, and the Use of the Past
30 October 2015 -
Lady Hale at Gray's Inn
Magna Carta: Did she die in vain?
19 October 2015 -
Lord Toulson gives keynote address at the Fundamental Rights Conference: A Public Law Perspective, LSE
Fundamental Rights and the Common Law
10 October 2015 -
Lady Hale gives the inaugural lecture at the Institute for Legal and Constitutional Research, University of St Andrews
The UK Supreme Court in the United Kingdom Constitution
8 October 2015 -
Lord Neuberger gives talk to commemorate the ICLR's 150th Anniversary, Lincoln's Inn
Reflections on the ICLR Top Fifteen Cases
6 October 2015 -
Lord Neuberger gives the Singapore Academy of Law Annual Lecture 2015
Is nothing secret? Confidentiality, Privacy, Freedom of Information and Whistleblowing in the Internet Age
21 September 2015 -
Lord Neuberger at Guildford Cathedral
Magna Carta: The Bible of the English Constitution or a disgrace to the English nation?
18 June 2015 -
Lord Mance gives keynote speech to Association internationale de Droit des Assurances, Copenhagen
In the beginning is the market, in the end it is the law
12 June 2015 -
Lord Sumption gives the Opening Address at the Franco-British Council Conference
Magna Carta and the Déclaration des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen
11 June 2015 -
Lord Mance at a Colloque in Luxembourg
Speech to mark M. Vassilios Skouris's Presidency of the European Court of Justice
8 June 2015 -
Lady Hale gives the Supreme Court Historical Society Annual Lecture 2015, Washington D.C.
Magna Carta: Our Shared Heritage
1 June 2015 -
Lord Neuberger at Lincoln's Inn
Magna Carta and the Holy Grail
12 May 2015 -
Lord Neuberger at the Civil Mediation Conference 2015
Keynote Address
12 May 2015 -
Lord Neuberger at the Criminal Justice Alliance
Fairness in the courts: the best we can do
10 April 2015 -
Lord Mance gives the Cayman Islands' Fifth Annual Judicial Distinguished Guest Lecture
Justice and Justiciability
31 March 2015 -
Lord Neuberger at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Centenary Celebration, Hong Kong
Arbitration and the Rule of Law
20 March 2015 -
Lord Sumption at the Friends of the British Library AGM
Magna Carta then and now
9 March 2015 -
Lord Neuberger at Dublin University Law Society, Trinity College Dublin
Lord Neuberger receives the Trinity Praeses Elit Award 2015
6 March 2015 -
Lord Neuberger at the Global Law Summit, Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London
Closing address
25 February 2015 -
Lord Neuberger gives the 2015 Fox Intellectual Property Lecture, Toronto
Trade Mark Dilution and Parody
20 February 2015 -
Lord Hodge at the Edinburgh Tax Network and Trust Bar
The Rectification of Wills: Marley v Rawlings
12 February 2015 -
Lady Hale gives The Bryce Lecture 2015, Somerville College, Oxford
The Supreme Court in the United Kingdom Constitution
5 February 2015 -
Lord Neuberger gives the F.A. Mann Lecture for 2015
'Judge not, that ye be not judged': judging judicial decision-making
29 January 2015 -
Lord Neuberger at the Manchester Law Society and Northern Circuit Commercial Bar Association
Some thoughts on the post-LASPO civil judge's role before and during trial
22 January 2015
2014
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Lord Neuberger gives The Blackstone Lecture 2014, Pembroke College, Oxford
Tweaking the Curial Veil
15 November 2014 -
Lord Reed gives The Sir Thomas More Lecture for 2014
EU Law and the Supreme Court
14 November 2014 -
Lord Wilson gives the Denning Society Lecture at Lincoln's Inn
Adoption: Complexities Beyond the Law
13 November 2014 -
Lord Toulson at the London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association
International Influence on the Common Law
11 November 2014 -
Lord Neuberger at the annual Bond Solon Expert Witness Conference
Expert witnesses
7 November 2014 -
Lord Sumption gives the Administrative Law Bar Association Annual Lecture
Anxious Scrutiny
4 November 2014 -
Lady Hale gives the Lord Rodger Memorial Lecture 2014 (organised by the Royal Faculty of Procurators, Glasgow)
Psychiatry and the Law: An enduring interest for Lord Rodger
31 October 2014 -
Lady Hale at the Mental Health Tribunal Members' Association 2014
The Other Side of the Table?
17 October 2014 -
Lady Hale delivers the Oxfordshire High Sheriff's Lecture 2014
Are we a Christian country? Religious freedom and the law
14 October 2014 -
Lord Neuberger at the Legal Wales Conference 2014
The UK Constitutional Settlement and the Role of the UK Supreme Court
10 October 2014 -
Lord Neuberger gives The Conkerton Lecture 2014, Liverpool Law Society
The Supreme Court and the Rule of Law
9 October 2014 -
Lord Carnwath gives the 28th Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture, Kuala Lumpur
Environmental law in a global society
9 October 2014 -
Lord Neuberger at Conference 5RB (PDF)
"What's in a name?" - Privacy and anonymous speech on the Internet
30 September 2014 -
Lord Carnwath at the Commonwealth Magistrates' and Judges' Conference, Zambia (PDF)
Discipline and Removal of Senior Judges
9 September 2014 -
Lord Neuberger at the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents' Club (PDF)
The Third and Fourth Estates: Judges, Journalists and Open Justice
26 August 2014 -
Lord Neuberger at the Banking Services and Finance Law Association Conference, Queenstown (PDF)
The impact of pre- and post-contractual conduct on contractual interpretation
11 August 2014 -
Lord Neuberger at the Banking Services and Finance Law Association Conference, Queenstown (PDF)
The Remedial Constructive Trust - Fact or Fiction
10 August 2014 -
Lord Neuberger at a conference at the Supreme Court of Victoria, Melbourne (PDF)
The role of judges in human rights jurisprudence: a comparison of the Australian and UK experience
8 August 2014 -
Lord Neuberger gives the Lehane Lecture 2014, Supreme Court of New South Wales, Sydney (PDF)
Equity - The soul and spirit of all law or a roguish thing?
4 August 2014 -
Lord Neuberger at the Annual Conference of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Sydney (PDF)
Sausages and the Judicial Process: the Limits of Transparency
1 August 2014 -
Lady Hale gives keynote address to the Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association Conference (PDF)
UK Constitutionalism on the March?
12 July 2014 -
Lady Hale gives the Fiona Woolf Lecture for the Women Lawyers' Division of the Law Society (PDF)
Women in the Judiciary
27 June 2014 -
Lord Neuberger at a conference of the Bar Councils of Northern Ireland and Ireland, Belfast (PDF)
The Future of the Bar
20 June 2014 -
Lord Kerr at the
Expert Witness Institute AGM
Reflections on Jones v Kaney
18 June 2014 -
Lady Hale gives the Annual Human Rights Lecture for the Law Society of Ireland (PDF)
Freedom of Religion and Belief
13 June 2014 -
Lord Neuberger gives the Burrell Lecture for the Competition Law Association (PDF)
Intellectual Property in the UK and Europe
1 April 2014 -
Lady Hale gives the Professional Negligence Bar Association's Peter Taylor Lecture 2014
Professional Negligence - a panacea for the law's injustices?
20 May 2014 -
Lord Hodge at the British German Jurists' Association Conference, Edinburgh
Legal Implications, Advantages and Disadvantages of Independence, Devolution and Federalism
16 May 2014 -
Lord Carnwath at the joint UCL-HKU conference 'Judicial review in a changing society', at Hong Kong University (PDF)
From Rationality to Proportionality in the Modern Law
14 April 2014 -
Lord Neuberger gives the Rainbow Lecture 2014 on Diversity at the House of Commons (PDF)
Rainbow Lecture 2014 on Diversity
12 March 2014 -
Lady Hale at the Comparative and Administrative Law Conference, Yale Law School (PDF)
Religion and Sexual Orientation: The clash of equality rights
7 March 2014 -
Lord Neuberger at the Northern Ireland Judicial Studies Board (PDF)
Justice and Security
27 February 2014 -
Lord Wilson at the Medico-Legal Society in Belfast, Northern Ireland (PDF)
Marriage is made for Man, not Man for Marriage
18 February 2014 -
Lord Neuberger gives the Cambridge Freshfields Annual Law Lecture 2014 (PDF)
The British and Europe
12 February 2014
2013
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Lord Mance at the World Policy Conference, Monaco (PDF)
Destruction or Metamorphosis of the Legal Order?
14 December 2013 -
Lord Kerr gives the Justice Scotland International Human Rights Day Lecture 2013 (PDF)
Miscarriage of Justice - When should an appellate court quash conviction?
10 December 2013 -
Lady Hale at the Warwick Law Lecture 2013 (PDF)
What's the point of human rights?
28 November 2013 -
Lord Sumption gives the 27th Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture, Kuala Lumpur (PDF)
The Limits of Law
20 November 2013 -
Lord Carnwath gives the Garner Lecture 2013 (PDF)
The Common laws of the environment - at home and abroad
19 November 2013 -
Lord Carnwath gives the ALBA Annual Lecture (PDF)
From judicial outrage to sliding scales - where next for Wednesbury?
12 November 2013 -
Lord Neuberger at the ARBRIX Annual Conference, London (PDF)
Address to property arbitrators
12 November 2013 -
Lord Clarke gives the Bracton Lecture at the University of Exeter Law School (PDF)
What shall we do about fraudulent claims?
8 November 2013 -
Lord Sumption at the Denning Society (PDF)
The Disunited Kingdom: England, Ireland and Scotland
5 November 2013 -
Lord Toulson gives the TECBAR Annual Lecture (PDF)
Does Rectification require Rectifying?
31 October 2013 -
Lady Hale at London South Bank University (PDF)
Young Legal Aid Lawyers: Social Mobility
30 October 2013 -
Lord Neuberger at Justice - Tom Sargant Memorial Lecture 2013 (PDF)
Justice in an Age of Austerity
15 October 2013 -
Lady Hale at the Public Law Project Conference 2013 (PDF)
Who Guards the Guardians?
14 October 2013 -
Lord Neuberger gives The Annual Caroline Weatherill Memorial Lecture, Isle of Man (PDF)
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the 21st Century
11 October 2013 -
Lord Mance gives speech to mark 175th anniversary of founding of Hoge Raad, The Netherlands
The Rule of Law - Common Traditions and Common Issues
1 October 2013 -
Lord Carnwath at seminar on subsidiarity in supranational jurisdictions, Rome (PDF)
Italian version of speech (PDF)
The subsidiary role of the European Court of Human Rights in the UK judicial system
20 September 2013 -
Lady Hale gives the Munkman Lecture 2013 at BPP Law School, Leeds (PDF)
What are Care Proceedings for?
5 September 2013 -
Lord Hope at the Banking and Financial Services Law Association, Gold Coast, Australia (PDF)
A light at the end of the tunnel? - BNY in the UK Supreme Court
29 August 2013 -
Lady Hale gives the Alison Weatherfield Memorial Lecture at the Employment Lawyers Association (PDF)
The Conflict of Equalities
10 July 2013 -
Lady Hale at the Morgan Centre Conference, held at the LSE (PDF)
New Families and the Welfare of Children
20 June 2013 -
Lord Neuberger at the Institute for Government (PDF)
Judges and policy: a delicate balance
18 June 2013 -
Lady Hale at the Welsh Observatory on the Human Rights of Children and Young People (PDF)
Who's Afraid of Children's Rights?
14 June 2013 -
Lord Neuberger gives the inaugural Harbour Lecture at Gray's Inn (PDF)
From barretry, maintenance and champerty to litigation funding
8 May 2013 -
Lord Kerr gives the Lord MacDermott Lecture, Queen's University, Belfast (PDF)
Human Rights Law and the 'War on Terror'
2 May 2013 -
Lord Hope at the Lord Taylor Memorial Lecture, Inner Temple (PDF)
Tailoring the law on vicarious liability
23 April 2013 -
Lady Hale at the Socio-Legal Studies Association 2013 Conference (PDF)
Should judges be socio-legal scholars?
4 April 2013 -
Lady Hale gives the Kuttan Menon Memorial Lecture (PDF)
Equality in the Judiciary
21 February 2013 -
Lord Neuberger at the '80 Club', Association of Liberal Lawyers (PDF)
Tomorrow's Lawyers Today - Today's Lawyer's Tomorrow
19 February 2013 -
Lord Mance gives lecture in honour of Sir Jeremy Lever QC at the University of Oxford (PDF)
The Interface Between National and European Law
1 February 2013 -
Lord Carnwath at the Judicial College (PDF)
"Do judges use gavels?" The modern judge in myth and reality
16 January 2013
2012
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Lord Neuberger at the UK Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists' Lecture (PDF)
Privacy in the 21st Century
28 November 2012 -
Lord Neuberger gives the first annual BAILII Lecture (PDF)
No Judgment - No Justice
20 November 2012 -
Lord Neuberger at the Lord Upjohn Lecture, Association of Law Teachers (PDF)
Reforming Legal Education
15 November 2012 -
Lord Sumption at the Bar Council Law Reform Lecture (PDF)
Home Truths about Judicial Diversity
15 November 2012 -
Lord Reed gives the fifth Annual Lecture at the Centre for Commercial Law, University of Edinburgh (PDF)
Lies, damned lies: Abuse of process and the dishonest litigant
26 October 2012 -
Lord Neuberger gives the first annual Seckford Lecture at Woodbridge School (PDF)
Lord Erskine and Trial by Jury
17 October 2012 -
Lord Carnwath at the National Infrastructure Planning Association Inaugural Dinner (PDF)
A starring role for the Planning Act?
17 October 2012 -
Lady Hale at the Legal Wales 2012 conference (PDF)
The Supreme Court in the UK Constitution
12 October 2012 -
Lord Wilson gives the High Sheriff of Oxfordshire's Annual Law Lecture (PDF)
Out of his shadow: The long struggle of wives under English Law
9 October 2012 -
Lord Kerr gives the Birkenhead Lecture at Gray's Inn (PDF)
Dissenting judgments - self indulgence or self sacrifice?
8 October 2012 -
Lord Walker gives the Macpherson lecture, Supreme Court, Brisbane (PDF)
Pure Economic Loss: The Problem of Timing
13 September 2012 -
Lord Walker gives the Victoria Law Foundation's Annual Oration, Banco Court, Melbourne (PDF)
Developing the Common Law: How far is too far?
September 2012 -
Lord Kerr at the Francis Taylor Building Boydell Lecture (PDF)
European Arrest Warrants: A European Understanding of "Judicial Authority" as Highlighted in Assange v Swedish Prosecution Authority
13 June 2012 -
Lord Carnwath at the NMLR Annual Lecture Series (PDF)
Judicial Precedent - Taming the Common Law
07 June 2012 -
Lord Sumption at the LSE Department of Government (PDF)
Foreign Affairs in the English Courts since 9/11
14 May 2012 -
Lord Sumption at the Chancery Bar Association (PDF)
Reflexions on the Law of Illegality
23 April 2012 -
Lady Hale at the Norfolk Law Lecture, University of East Anglia, Norwich (PDF)
It's a Man's World: Redressing the Balance
16 February 2012 -
Lord Kerr at the Clifford Chance Lecture (PDF)
The UK Supreme Court - The modest underworker of Strasbourg?
25 January 2012
2011
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Lord Hope: A Lecture in honour of Sir Gerald Gordon, Edinburgh (PDF)
Corroboration and Distress
Given on 12 June 2009 (before the establishment of the Supreme Court), published December 2011 given topicality of subject -
Lord Hope: remarks to introduce Glasgow Bar Association Seminar (PDF)
The role of the Supreme Court in protecting the rights of the individual in a jurisdiction with no written constitution
9 December 2011 -
Lady Hale at the Nottingham Human Rights Lecture 2011 (PDF)
Argentoratum Locutum: Is the Supreme Court Supreme?
01 December 2011 -
Lord Wilson at a reception hosted by Collaborative Family Law, at the Reform Club (PDF)
Keynote Address
29 November 2011 -
Lady Hale at the Law Centres Federation Annual Conference 2011, Manchester
(PDF)
Opening Address
25 November 2011 -
Lord Hope at the Scottish Association for the Study of Offending Annual Conference (PDF)
The impact of Europe on Criminal Justice in Scotland: The role of the UK Supreme Court
The Lord Rodger of Earlsferry Memorial Lecture
19 November 2011 -
Lord Hope at the Family Law Association Conference (PDF)
Family Law in the UK Supreme Court
18 November 2011 -
Lord Walker at the Thomas More Lecture, Lincoln's Inn (PDF)
The Indefinite Article 8
9 November 2011 -
Lord Dyson at Hertfordshire University (PDF)
What is wrong with human rights?
3 November 2011 -
Lord Mance at the United Kingdom Association for European Law (PDF)
The Composition of the European Court of Justice
19 October 2011 -
Lord Dyson at Edinburgh University (PDF)
Time to call it a day: some reflections on finality and the law
14 October 2011 -
Lord Mance at the Oxford Shrieval lecture (PDF)
Should the law be certain?
11 October 2011 -
Lord Hope at the WG Legal Workshop 2011 (PDF)
Sovereignty in Question
28 June 2011 -
Lady Hale at Sir Henry Hodge Memorial Lecture 2011 (PDF)
Equal Access to Justice in the Big Society
27 June 2011 -
Lady Hale at Barnard's Inn Reading 2011 (PDF)
Beanstalk or Living Instrument? How tall can the ECHR grow?
16 June 2011 -
Lord Hope at Scottish Young Lawyers Association (PDF)
Scots Law seen from South of the Border
1 April 2011 -
Lord Phillips at UCL Constitution Unit, launch of research project on
The Politics of Judicial Independence (PDF)
Judicial Independence & Accountability: A View from the Supreme Court
8 February 2011
2010
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Lord Hope at Newcastle Law School (PDF)
Do we really need a Supreme Court?
25 November 2010 -
Lord Clarke at the Bracton Law Lecture, University of Exeter (PDF)
The Supreme Court: One Year On
11 November 2010 -
Lord Hope's speech to the Contract Law Conference in Jersey (PDF)
The Role of the Judge in developing Contract Law
15 October 2010 -
Paper presented by Lady Hale at The Supreme Court First Anniversary Seminar (PDF)
Judgment writing in The Supreme Court
30 September 2010
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Lecture by Lord Walker to Anglo-Australasian Lawyers Society at Owen Dixon Chambers, Melbourne (PDF)
The English law of privacy - an evolving human right
25 August 2010 -
Lecture by Lord Walker at Victoria University, Wellington (PDF)
Treating like cases alike and unlike cases differently: Some problems of antidiscrimination law
9 August 2010 -
Chief Executive, Jenny Rowe's speech to Government Historic Estates Unit, English Heritage Annual Conservation Seminar (PDF)
Community Interest: Public Engagement in the Government Historic Estate
28 September 2010 -
Lecture given by Lord Hope on 24 June 2010 at Barnard's Inn Reading (PDF)
The Creation of the Supreme Court – was it worth it?
24 June 2010 -
Lord Phillips at the Gresham Special Lecture at Lincoln's Inn (PDF)
08 June 2010 -
Lady Hale's speech to Salford Human Rights Conference (PDF)
4 June 2010 -
Lady Hale's speech at Georgetown University Law Center's commencement ceremony in Washington (PDF)
23 May 2010 -
Lady Hale's speech at the 10th Biennial International Conference of International Association of Women Judges, Seoul, South Korea (PDF)
Terrorism and Global Security: Threats to the independence of the judiciary in a changing world
12 May 2010 -
Lady Hale at the Ethel Benjamin Commemorative Address, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin,
New Zealand (PDF)
Dignity
7 May 2010 -
Lady Hale at the F.W. Guest Memorial Lecture, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand (PDF)
Justice for the Jains: Remedies for bad administration
5 May 2010 -
Lord Phillips at First Lord Alexander Weedon Lecture (PDF)
19 April 2010 -
Chief Executive, Jenny Rowe's speech to Government Legal Services in Edinburgh (PDF)
26 March 2010 -
Lord Hope's speech at the Bentham Club, University College London (PDF)
In law, is procedure really that important?
17 March 2010 -
Lord Hope's speech at the Edinburgh Centre for Commercial Law (PDF)
Taking the case to London - maybe it's not over after all
12 March 2010
2009
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Lady Hale at the Alba lecture (PDF)
Women and Children Last? Gender, Childhood and Migration.
18 November 2009 -
Lord Kerr at Shoreditch House (PDF)
London Collaborative Umbrella Group
7 October 2009 -
Chief Executive, Jenny Rowe (PDF)
Legal Week Litigation Forum
17 September 2009