Brenda Hale
The Guardian
What holds, and what fails, under pressure, standards and accountability.
Brenda Hale is a distinguished legal figure who served as the president of the Supreme Court of the UK, gaining prominence for her rulings on significant constitutional matters. This interview highlights her steadfast dedication to protecting legal principles and her thoughtful approach to navigating political pressures.
“Well, historian would have been the better thing because history was my favorite subject at school. But our headmistress, this tiny girls high school in North Yorkshire, was an Oxford history graduate. And she thought I was clever enough to go to Oxford. Cambridge, that was her ambition for me. But she said to me, Bren”
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“Maths is obvious. The only way of passing law needs to be to work with Parliament. You need to negotiate with Parliament, get it through. And he was denying when I was running for leadership against him that he'd do it. He and Dominic Ra would say, you know, I've scaremongering. This absolute nonsense they were going t”
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“Everybody knows the party politics of the members of the Supreme Court of the United States. Now, there have been plenty of examples in the past where people appointed by or nominated by Republican presidents who've actually turned out to be the most liberal members of the court. We can all think of at least two, three”
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