Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond

Brenda Marjorie Hale{{cite web|url=https://www.supremecourt.uk/about/biographies-of-the-justices.html|publisher=Supreme Court of the United Kingdom|access-date=24 September 2019|title=Biographies of the Justices|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190522153902/https://www.supremecourt.uk/about/biographies-of-the-justices.html|archive-date=22 May 2019|url-status=live}} was born on 31 January 1945 in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire. Both her parents were headteachers. She has two sisters. Hale lived in Redcar until the age of three when she moved with her parents to Richmond, North Yorkshire. She was educated at the Richmond High School for Girls (now part of Richmond School), where she and her two sisters were all head girls.{{cite news |last=Amos |first=Mike |title=Judge not lest thou be judged, but the column's still much impressed by Lady Hale |url=https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/16182345.amp/ |access-date=27 December 2019 |work=Bolton News |date=5 April 2018 |archive-date=27 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191227091954/https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/16182345.amp/ |url-status=live}} She later studied at Girton College, Cambridge (the first from her school to attend Cambridge), where she read law. Hale was one of six women in her class, which had 110 men, and graduated with a starred first and top of her class in 1966.

After becoming an assistant law lecturer at the Victoria University of Manchester (now the University of Manchester) in 1966 and lecturer in 1968, she was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn in 1969, topping the list in the bar finals for that year.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/jan/09/lords.women|work=The Guardian|title=The Guardian profile: Lady Brenda Hale|last=Dyer|first=Clare|access-date=24 September 2019|date=9 January 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161202010338/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/jan/09/lords.women|archive-date=2 December 2016|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last=Stokel-Walker|first=Chris|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/brexit/2019/09/lady-hale-gently-determined-president-supreme-court-overruled-boris-johnson|work=New Statesman|date=24 September 2019|access-date=24 September 2019|title=Lady Hale, the gently determined president of the Supreme Court that overruled Boris Johnson}}{{Cite web|title=Hale of Richmond, Baroness, (Brenda Marjorie Hale) (born 31 Jan. 1945)|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-18586|access-date=2020-09-22|website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO|year=2007|language=en|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u18586|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4|archive-date=1 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001171642/https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-18586|url-status=live}}

Working part-time as a barrister, Hale spent 18 years mostly in academia, becoming Reader in 1981 and Professor of Law at Manchester in 1986. Two years earlier, she became the first woman and youngest person to be appointed to the Law Commission, overseeing a number of important reforms{{cite news |author1=Yonette Joseph |author2=Ceylan Yeginsu |title=Lady Hale, U.K. Supreme Court Judge, Speaks Calmly and Brings Down the Hammer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/24/world/europe/lady-hale-supreme-court-uk.html |access-date=24 September 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=24 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190925082602/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/24/world/europe/lady-hale-supreme-court-uk.html |archive-date=25 September 2019 |url-status=live }} in family law during her nine years with the commission. In 1989, she was appointed Queen's Counsel.

Lady Hale was appointed a recorder (a part-time circuit judge) in 1989, and in 1994 became a judge in the Family Division of the High Court of Justice (styled The Honourable Mrs Justice Hale). Upon her appointment, as is convention, she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE). In 1999, Lady Hale followed Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss to become only the second woman to be appointed to the Court of Appeal (styled thereafter The Right Honourable Lady Justice Hale), entering the Privy Council at the same time.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/jul/21/brenda-hale-to-become-supreme-courts-first-female-president-reports|work=The Guardian|title=Brenda Hale to become first female president of supreme court – reports|last=Slawson|first=Nicola|date=21 July 2017|access-date=24 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181230180612/https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/jul/21/brenda-hale-to-become-supreme-courts-first-female-president-reports|archive-date=30 December 2018|url-status=live}}

On 12 January 2004, she was appointed the first female Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and was created a life peer as Baroness Hale of Richmond, of Easby in the County of North Yorkshire.{{London Gazette |issue=57179 |page=503 |date=15 January 2004}} She sat in the House of Lords as a Crossbencher.[https://members.parliament.uk/member/3652/career Baroness Hale of Richmond: Parliamentary career] – website of the UK Parlement

In June 2013, she was appointed Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom to succeed Lord Hope of Craighead.{{cite web|url=https://www.supremecourt.uk/news/lady-hale-to-be-next-deputy-president-of-supreme-court.html|title=Lady Hale to be next Deputy President of Supreme Court|publisher=Supreme Court of the United Kingdom|date=24 June 2013|access-date=24 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140205090531/http://supremecourt.uk/news/lady-hale-to-be-next-deputy-president-of-supreme-court.html|archive-date=5 February 2014|url-status=live}} In July 2017, she was appointed to be the next President of the Supreme Court, succeeding Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/jul/21/brenda-hale-appointed-as-uk-supreme-court-first-female-president|title=Brenda Hale appointed as UK supreme court's first female president|website=The Guardian|date=21 July 2017|access-date=7 April 2020|last=Siddique|first=Haroon|archive-date=11 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200511142907/https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/jul/21/brenda-hale-appointed-as-uk-supreme-court-first-female-president|url-status=live}} She took office in September 2017.{{London Gazette|issue=62054|date=19 September 2017|page=17466}}

In December 2018, during an interview to mark the centenary of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919, Lady Hale argued that the judiciary needed to become more diverse so that the public have greater confidence in judges. Hale called for a more balanced gender representation on the UK's highest court and swifter progress promoting those from minority ethnic backgrounds and with "less privileged lives". However, Lady Hale objected to the idea of positive discrimination because "no one wants to feel they have got the job in any way other than on their own merits".{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019/jan/01/lady-hale-supreme-court-president-judges-diversity|title=White and male UK judiciary 'from another planet', says Lady Hale|last=Bowcott|first=Owen|date=1 January 2019|work=The Guardian|access-date=1 January 2019|issn=0261-3077|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190101005223/https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019/jan/01/lady-hale-supreme-court-president-judges-diversity|archive-date=1 January 2019|url-status=live}}

In September 2019, Prime Minister Boris Johnson prorogued Parliament over Brexit. As President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Lady Hale along with all 11 other Justices of the Supreme Court, unanimously found that Johnson's prorogation was unlawful, terminating the suspension of Parliament.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019/sep/24/boris-johnsons-suspension-of-parliament-unlawful-supreme-court-rules-prorogue|title=Boris Johnson's suspension of parliament unlawful, supreme court rules|last1=Bowcott |first1=Owen |date=24 September 2019|work=The Guardian|access-date=25 November 2019|last2=Quinn|first2=Ben|issn=0261-3077|last3=Carrell|first3=Severin|archive-date=20 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191020195442/https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019/sep/24/boris-johnsons-suspension-of-parliament-unlawful-supreme-court-rules-prorogue|url-status=live}} Hale described the ruling as "a source of, not pride, but satisfaction."{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/jan/11/lady-hale-desert-island-judgments-prorogation-case-simon-hattenstone|title=Lady Hale: 'My Desert Island Judgments? Number one would probably be the prorogation case'|last=Hattenstone|first=Simon|date=11 January 2020|work=The Guardian|access-date=13 January 2020|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=13 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200113012333/https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/jan/11/lady-hale-desert-island-judgments-prorogation-case-simon-hattenstone|url-status=live}} In 2020, reaching the mandatory retirement age, Lady Hale retired from the court.{{Cite news |date=2019-12-18 |title=Lady Hale warns against the UK adopting a US-style Supreme Court |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-50836164 |access-date=2020-10-22 |archive-date=29 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029074156/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-50836164 |url-status=live }}

On 21 March 2018, the Hong Kong judiciary announced her nomination as a non-permanent judge from other common law jurisdictions of the Court of Final Appeal. Her appointment was accompanied by the appointments of Andrew Cheung and Beverley McLachlin.{{cite news|url=http://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news.php?id=104594&sid=4|title=Top court gets new judges|work=The Standard|access-date=21 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180321194254/http://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news.php?id=104594&sid=4|archive-date=21 March 2018|url-status=live}} The appointment was gazetted by the Chief Executive of Hong Kong Carrie Lam and took effect 30 July 2018 for a three-year term.{{cite web|url=https://www.gld.gov.hk/egazette/pdf/20182231/egn201822315815.pdf|title=Hong Kong Gazette Notice GN5815/2018|access-date=3 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180904052542/https://www.gld.gov.hk/egazette/pdf/20182231/egn201822315815.pdf|archive-date=4 September 2018|url-status=live}}

In October 2020, after China imposing a controversial national security law on Hong Kong, Lady Hale expressed her concerns about hearing cases in Hong Kong: "I have never sat and it has not been arranged at least for me to sit . . . when that happened I would have a serious moral question to ask myself."{{cite news|date=24 November 2020|title=Britain warns on future of UK judges in Hong Kong|work=Financial Times|url=https://www.ft.com/content/9d6ddd37-a315-4d08-bda1-b7c795aac12f}}

In June 2021, she revealed her wish of not wanting to be reappointed as a judge in Hong Kong after her three-year term ending in July. As she was making her decision known before a webinar, she also mentioned the impact of the security law and said, 'The jury is out on how they will be able to operate the new national security law. There are all sorts of question marks up in the air.'{{cite news|date=4 June 2021|title=Senior British judge to quit top Hong Kong court: media|work=Hong Kong Free Press|url=https://hongkongfp.com/2021/06/04/senior-british-judge-to-quit-top-hong-kong-court-media/}} However, the Hong Kong Judiciary claimed that her leaving was for personal reasons.{{cite news|date=4 June 2021|title=Mixed reports on why foreign judge leaves CFA|work=RTHK|url=https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1594250-20210604.htm}}{{cite web|date=4 June 2021|title=Statement by Judiciary on Baroness Hale's term of office as non-permanent CFA judge|url=https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202106/04/P2021060400779.htm|url-status=live|publisher=Judiciary of Hong Kong|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210604124004/https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202106/04/P2021060400779.htm |archive-date=4 June 2021}}

Lady Hale became the first senior British judge to quit Hong Kong's top court after her fellow judge, Australian James Spigelman, resigned as a Hong Kong judge in November 2020.{{cite news|date=4 June 2021|title=Hong Kong judiciary says British judge to step down from city's top court|agency=Reuters|url=https://news.yahoo.com/hong-kong-judiciary-says-british-124335232.html}}

Lady Hale became a member of the House of Lords following her appointment as a law lord, and was introduced to the Lords on 12 January 2004.{{cite Hansard |title=Baroness Hale of Richmond |jurisdiction=Parliament of the United Kingdom |url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2004-01-12/debates/91badf4d-2fb7-4dce-b49a-7a8993a52f6f/BaronessHaleOfRichmond |house=House of Lords |date=12 January 2004 |volume=657 |column=369}}

In September 2023, Lady Hale was identified by The Guardian as one of eleven peers who had not sworn or affirmed the oath of allegiance to King Charles III and could not sit or vote in the House of Lords until they had done so.{{cite news |last=Dyer |first=Henry |title=Eleven peers have not sat in Lords for at least a year after failing to take oath to king |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/17/eleven-peers-have-not-sat-in-lords-for-at-least-a-year-after-failing-to-take-oath-to-king |access-date=22 November 2023 |work=The Guardian |date=17 September 2023}} Describing her appointment as a law lord, Hale stated: "I do not accept that I have neglected any 'duties' because I was not appointed as a parliamentarian", and planned to "play a modest part" in the Lords, having retired from judicial office. She made her maiden speech on 23 November 2023, citing "the disruption caused by Covid and [her] own diffidence about whether [she] could make a useful contribution" for not having participated in parliamentary debates since her retirement as a judge.{{cite Hansard |title=Mental Health: Children and Young People |jurisdiction=Parliament of the United Kingdom |url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2023-11-23/debates/2C4F9127-CA7D-4482-BF63-C5E9E2CAA7A9/MentalHealthChildrenAndYoungPeople |house=House of Lords |date=23 November 2023 |volume=834 |column=834–835}}

On 27 June 2011, Lady Hale gave a lecture in memory of Sir Henry Hodge, "Equal Access to Justice in the Big Society" in which she explains the benefits of an inquisitorial Tribunal system over adversarial proceedings.{{cite web |url=https://www.supremecourt.uk/news/speeches.html#2011 |title=Supreme Court Speeches (2011)|access-date=15 October 2022}}

On 10 September 2015, Lady Hale delivered the Caldwell Public Lecture at the University of Melbourne, Australia, on the topic "Protecting Human Rights in the UK Courts: What are we doing wrong?"."[http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/about/news--media/events/caldwell-public-lecture-.html Caldwell Public Lecture] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151009025611/http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/about/news--media/events/caldwell-public-lecture-.html |date=9 October 2015 }}", Trinity College Events [online], accessed, 25 August 2015.

On 2 November 2018, Lady Hale delivered an SLS Centenary Lecture at the University of Essex, United Kingdom, on the topic of "All Human Beings? Reflection on the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights".

On 7 March 2019, Lady Hale delivered the University of Cambridge Freshfields law lecture, which she entitled "Principle and Pragmatism in Developing Private Law".{{Cite web |url=https://theglobalherald.com/law/principle-and-pragmatism-in-developing-private-law-2019-cambridge-freshfields-lecture/ |title='Principle and Pragmatism in Developing Private Law': 2019 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture – the Global Herald |date=13 March 2019 |access-date=27 October 2020 |archive-date=30 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030170324/https://theglobalherald.com/law/principle-and-pragmatism-in-developing-private-law-2019-cambridge-freshfields-lecture/ |url-status=live }}

In a 2019 Girton College lecture entitled "100 Years of Women in Law",{{cite news |title=Girton150 The Visitor's Lecture by the Rt Hon Baroness Hale of Richmond |url=https://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/events/girton150-visitors-lecture-rt-hon-baroness-hale-richmond |publisher=Girton College |date=2 May 2019}}{{cite book |title=The Year 2019: The Annual Review of Girton College Cambridge |date=2019 |publisher=Girton College |location=Cambridge |page=56 |url=https://issuu.com/girtoncollege/docs/the_year_2018-19_final_sc}} Lady Hale described the "Brenda Agenda" as "quite simply, the belief that women are equal to men and should enjoy the same rights and freedoms that they do; but that women's lives are necessarily sometimes different from men's and the experience of leading those lives is just as valid and important in shaping the law as is the experience of men's lives."{{cite news|publisher=|url=https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-and-opinion/an-insiders-account-of-the-brenda-agenda/5102903.article4|title=An insider's account of the 'Brenda agenda'|last=Rozenberg|first=Joshua|date=3 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200203175053/https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-and-opinion/an-insiders-account-of-the-brenda-agenda/5102903.article|archive-date=3 February 2020}}

In June 2024, Lady Hale lectured a large audience at Conway Hall organised by Humanists UK and My Death, My Decision, in which she referred to the law preventing medically assisted euthanasia (assisted dying) as "cruel". This was her first public intervention on the subject since she gave a dissenting opinion in support of the claimant in R (Nicklinson) v Ministry of Justice a decade previously.{{cite web|url=https://humanists.uk/2024/06/27/lady-hale-lack-of-assisted-dying-law-is-cruelty/|title=Lady Hale: Lack of assisted dying law is 'cruel'|work=Humanists UK|accessdate=23 October 2024|date=27 June 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://humanists.uk/2024/06/25/decade-since-historic-assisted-dying-ruling/|title=Decade since historic assisted dying ruling|work=Humanists UK|accessdate=23 October 2024|date=25 June 2024}}

• She was appointed as a Queen's Counsel (QC) in 1989.
• She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the Civil Division in 1994 upon her appointment as a High Court Justice
• She was sworn of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council in 1999, giving her the honorific style of "The Right Honourable" for life.
• The Law Building at the University of Salford was named after her in 2008.{{Cite web|url=http://www.salford.ac.uk/news/details/1165|title=News: Pioneering judge among Salford honorary graduates | News | University of Salford – A Greater Manchester University|date=6 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110106041224/http://www.salford.ac.uk/news/details/1165|access-date=12 August 2020|archive-date=6 January 2011}}
• She received an Honorary Fellowship from Bristol University in July 2017. An Honorary Fellowship is the highest honour the university can bestow.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bristol.ac.uk/graduation/honorary-degrees/honorary-fellows/hale/|title = The Rt Hon. The Baroness Hale of Richmond, DBE}}

• She received the Hibernian Law Medal from the Law Society of Ireland on 12 May 2022 for outstanding contributions to the advancement of justice, integrity of the rule of law, independence of the judiciary and the legal professions, and/or public access to and understanding of the legal system.{{cite web | url=https://www.lawsociety.ie/gazette/top-stories/2022/hibernian-law-medals-to-be-awarded-to-robinson-and-hale | title=Hibernian Law Medals to be awarded to Robinson and Hale }}
• In 2021 "Lady Hale Gate", a passage leading from Chancery Lane into Gray's Inn was named in her honour. It is home to Gatehouse Chambers.

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In 1968, Lady Hale married John Hoggett, a fellow law lecturer at Manchester, with whom she had one daughter, Julia Hoggett, who was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the London Stock Exchange in April 2021. The marriage was dissolved in 1992. In the same year, she married Julian Farrand, former dean of the law faculty at Manchester, and subsequently Pensions Ombudsman.

In April 2018, Lady Hale featured as a celebrity judge on BBC cooking show MasterChef.{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/baroness-hale-to-lay-down-the-law-on-masterchef-df3pbtfz7|title=Baroness Hale to lay down the law on MasterChef|last=Gibb|first=Frances |date=30 April 2018|work=The Times|access-date=5 April 2018|issn=0140-0460|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180406040501/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/baroness-hale-to-lay-down-the-law-on-masterchef-df3pbtfz7|archive-date=6 April 2018|url-status=live}}

In September 2021, Lady Hale appeared on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000zt7b|title=Baroness Hale of Richmond, former judge|website=Desert Island Discs|publisher=BBC Radio 4|access-date=20 September 2021}} In the following month she unveiled a blue plaque in honour of Helena Normanton on 22 Mecklenburgh Square in London, saying: "Helena Normanton was the pioneer of female barristers. She had to overcome a great deal of prejudice and discrimination. A blue plaque is a fitting tribute to her courage and her example to women barristers everywhere."{{cite web |title=Blue plaque for first practising female barrister Helena Normanton unveiled |url=https://www.theguardian.com/law/2021/oct/21/blue-plaque-for-first-practising-female-barrister-helena-normanton-unveiled |website=The Guardian |date=21 October 2021 |access-date=21 October 2021}}

• Parents and Children (1977, 2nd ed. 1981, Sweet and Maxwell) {{ISBN|9780421279100}}
• Women and the Law (as Brenda Hoggett, with Susan Atkins, 1984, republished 2018, Institute of Advanced Legal studies, University of London) {{ISBN|9781911507109}}
• The Family, Law & Society (with David Pearl, Elizabeth Cooke, Daniel Monk, 2009, Oxford University Press) {{ISBN|9780199204243}}
• Mental Health Law (2017, with Penelope Gorman, Rachel Barrett and Jessica Jones, Sweet & Maxwell, {{ISBN|9780414051201}}
• Spider Woman: A Life (2021, as Lady Hale) {{ISBN|978-1847926593}}

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|escutcheon = Gules two scrolls in saltire Argent banded crosswise Vert attached thereto four seals in cross Or all between four towers crenellations outwards Argent.{{cite book|title=Debrett's Peerage |date=2008}}

|supporters = Two frogs Vert crowned Or.

|notes = Granted by Garter Gwynn-Jones, 16 June 2004{{cite web|url=https://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/news-grants/newsletter/2004/item/61-november-2004-newsletter-no-3 |title=Newsletter (No. 3) |publisher=College of Arms |accessdate=19 June 2021}}

|symbolism = The castles represent Richmond while the scrolls represent the law. The crowned frog supporters represent the frog prince.{{cite news|url=https://www.ft.com/content/cdedc9ac-beaf-11e0-a36b-00144feabdc0|title=Taking tea in Wonderland|first=Annie Maccoby|last=Berglof|publisher=Financial Times|date=12 August 2011|access-date=11 August 2018|url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180811195220/https://www.ft.com/content/cdedc9ac-beaf-11e0-a36b-00144feabdc0|archive-date=11 August 2018}} For Hale, the frog prince relates to her husband and her large collection of ceramic frogs. ("It's an inside joke between us. My husband was my frog prince. Now people give us frogs."){{cite web|url=https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/opinion/columnists/16182345.mike-amos-judge-not-lest-thou-judged-columns-still-much-impressed-lady-hale/|title=Mike Amos: Judge not lest thou be judged, but the column's still much impressed by Lady Hale |date=25 April 2018 |work=The Northern Echo |access-date=19 June 2021}}

|motto = Omnia Feminae Aequissimae (translated by Debrett's in 2007 as "Everything To The Most Just Woman", but widely discussed in media in 2019 as "Women Are Equal To Everything"{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/jul/21/women-are-equal-to-everything-lady-hale-lives-up-to-her-motto |title='Women are equal to everything': Lady Hale lives up to her motto |date=21 July 2017 |work=The Guardian |first=Owen |last=Boycott |accessdate=19 June 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/opinion/columnists/16182345.mike-amos-judge-not-lest-thou-judged-columns-still-much-impressed-lady-hale/ |title=Mike Amos: Judge not lest thou be judged, but the column's still much impressed by Lady Hale |date=25 April 2018 |work=The Northern Echo |accessdate=19 June 2021}})}}

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