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Supreme Court now in action
here it comes…
- 06th October 2009
The long-awaited UK Supreme Court has this week heard its first appeal - and the public will be able to watch proceedings broadcast on television.
The new Court will be marked by its visibility and transparency, a landmark step forward since the former law lords heard appeals in an obscure location in Westminster. The first appeal in the Supreme Court involved five men who had been suspecting of financing terrorism.
They were appealing against a Treasury freeze on their assets on the basis that it breached their human rights. The case involved fundamental constitutional issues involving the law making process.
The Supreme Court was created under the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 following mounting calls for the creation of a free standing Supreme Court. The new Court means that the most senior judges will be entirely separate from the Parliamentary process. Previously, the Law Lords sat in the Appeal Court but were also able to be involved in the forming of new legislation.
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'...the public will be able to watch proceedings broadcast on television...'
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