{"id":1174,"date":"2009-10-16T12:22:55","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T11:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2009-10-16T12:22:55","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T11:22:55","slug":"jonathan-sumption-qc-will-not-become-supreme-court-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1174","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Sumption QC will not become Supreme Court Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1178\" style=\"width:150px;\">\r\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Jonathat-Sumption-QC-has-no-judicial-experience-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Jonathat Sumption, QC has no judicial experience\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>\r\n\t<div>Jonathat Sumption, QC has no judicial experience<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Jonathan Sumption, QC, described as having a \u201cbrain the size of a planet\u201d, appears to have been ruled out of filling the vacant post of Supreme Court Justice &#8211; Law Lord. Mr Sumption is among the most sought-after Queen\u2019s Counsel at the Bar, coming top of numerous lists in legal directories.<\/p>\n<p>The job was advertised in the press last week, but Court of Appeal judges are reported to hve told their colleagues in the Supreme Court that the new justice should be chosen from the ranks of serving judges.<\/p>\n<p>To appoint Sumption directly from the bar to the SC will be a disincentive to others at the Bar to become judges if they can remain in practice, earning up to five times as much, and apply for the most senior posts towards the end of their careers.<\/p>\n<p>Other contenders for the top job include Lords Justices Carnwath, Dyson (who was a contender for the Master of the Rolls) Dix, Laws and Sedley.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Constititutional Reform Act 2005, the Supreme Court justices are chosen through a procedure involving a small selection panel chaired by Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, the President of the court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathat Sumption, QC has no judicial experience Jonathan Sumption, QC, described as having a \u201cbrain the size of a planet\u201d, appears to have been ruled out of filling the vacant post of Supreme Court Justice &#8211; Law Lord. Mr Sumption is among the most sought-after Queen\u2019s Counsel at the Bar, coming top of numerous lists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}