Baroness Hale of Richmond is standing down as the head of the Supreme Court SUPREME COURT/PAJudges must learn to live with criticism from the press, the outgoing head of the Supreme Court has said. Baroness Hale of Richmond, the UK’s most senior judge, was responding for the first time to criticism of the judiciary during legal challenges over Brexit, including one newspaper headline that branded three judges “enemies of the people”. The first woman president of the Supreme Court described the judiciary as “independent” and added that “we certainly do not pay any attention to attacks of that nature”. She described the criticism as “unfortunate”, but added: “We have a free press and if the press wants to attack us, that’s fine. But we have to do the job according to our judicial oaths.”In November 2016 the Daily Mail…

Source: The Times December 27, 2019 00:00 UTC