The paper starts with a Monty Python quote Senior private law lecturer James Lee has written a research paper on the “judicial individuality” of wild-haired Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption. The paper begins with this quote from Monty Python’s Life of Brian, in a seeming hat tip to Sumption’s originality: Brian: Look, you’ve got it all wrong! You don’t need to follow me; you don’t need to follow anybody! You’ve got to think for yourselves! You’re all individuals! Before long, the King’s College London academic delved into a comparison between commercial law expert Sumption and law student favourite Lord Denning. He said:
Sumption also seems to share Denning’s desire for dissents: he is in the top three justices most likely to stray from majority lines (behind Lords Toulson and Clarke). Lee added:
But it’s not just Denning that Lee is reminded of. The lecturer — who has worked at the universities of Birmingham and Reading — also thinks Sumption has a whiff of Shakespeare about him. Lee continued:
Lee’s piece also includes some interesting data on Sumption’s time on the bench. The Brick Court Chambers barrister turned Supreme Court justice has, Lee says, delivered the highest percentage (30.3%) of lead or joint lead judgments in the cases in which he sat in 2015/16. For these reasons and others, Lee appears to have no problem concluding that Sumption has made a “considerable impact” in his years on the bench. Lee finished:
This conclusion broadly aligns with research undertaken by Dr Chris Hanretty, a University of East Anglia academic. Hanretty found that Sumption — along with Supreme Court president Lord Neuberger and deputy president Lady Hale — was one of the most “celebrity” justices on the bench, based on mentions in the press. Read the research in full here:For all the latest commercial awareness info, and advance notification of Legal Cheek’s careers events, sign up to the Legal Cheek Hub here. The post King’s College London law lecturer compares Lord Sumption to Lord Denning in new research about the Supreme Court judge’s ‘individuality’ appeared first on Legal Cheek. from https://www.legalcheek.com/2017/05/kings-college-london-law-lecturer-compares-lord-sumption-to-lord-denning-in-new-research-about-the-supreme-court-judges-individuality/
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