By the end of her book she is in antiques robes giving judgements on important cases including aspects the government's actions over BREXIT in the highest court in the land.

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As Brenda Hale, otherwise known as the Rt Hon the Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE, notes in her new memoir, what she was wearing that day “is not important”. In October 2020, after China imposing a controversial national security law on Hong Kong, 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 .She, though, became the first female Law Commissioner and, in 2004, the first female Lord of Appeal in the Ordinary since the position was created in 1876. They note, for example, that “Judgments are becoming noticeably shorter over time, with proportionally fewer divided judgments and more unanimous judgments. On 5 September 2017, Hale was appointed under the premiership of Theresa May to serve as President of the Supreme Court, and was sworn in on 2 October 2017.

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As 'a little girl from a little school in a little village in North Yorkshire', she only went into the law because her headteacher told her she wasn't clever enough to study history. By the time they got to spidergate, she was one of 11 justices and felt a deal of safety in numbers. Her journey through the law courts to the position of president of the Supreme Court tracked also the journey of women into a largely male dominated role. Her parents were schoolteachers, “a very respected status in those days”, but the family were slightly removed from the class stratifications of the place, neither farmers nor gentry, and she has an outsider’s eye for social injustice. Photograph: Sophia Spring/The Guardian ‘She is in possession of an under-rated superpower: patience’: Lady Hale.I remember reading Lady Hale's judgments as an undergraduate and finding them refreshingly readable, even when I didn't agree with them, and this book retains that accessibility. From a lay perspective, it was not a very explosive place back then: we weren’t lurching from one self-inflicted constitutional crisis to another. My main worry” she told me in her deliberate way, was “the effect that [the Mail’s attacks on her] might have on the law reform projects which I had promoted and they were attacking.

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If it brings more readers, if it draws attention to the judgments, if it upsets a few stuffed shirts, well perhaps that’s all to the good.Think about the courage of those lawyers and judges, who stood up for what they thought was right, legally, constitutionally.