{"id":1692,"date":"2010-09-17T04:59:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T03:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1692"},"modified":"2010-10-04T19:21:17","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T18:21:17","slug":"nine-supreme-court-justices-to-hear-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1692","title":{"rendered":"Nine Supreme Court justices to hear appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-full wp-image-1693\" style=\"width:350px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/supreme_court_building.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/supreme_court_building.jpg\" alt=\"Supreme Court in London\" width=\"350\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>Supreme Court in London<\/div>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\nOn 18 of October, the Supreme Court will hear a case of high constitutional importance: does a criminal court in Britain have jurisdiction to try an MP accused of making a dishonest claim for expenses or are such matters exclusively within the jurisdiction of parliament and not matters for the ordinary courts.<\/p>\n<p>The Court of Appeal certified that the case raised a point of law of general public importance.<\/p>\n<p>Nine justices will sit &#8211; the normal number is five &#8211; because of the matter is not only of public importance, it is of constitutional importance.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyers for the three are expected to cite article 9 of the bill of rights 1688, which says &#8220;That the Freedom of Speech and Debates or Proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any Court or Place out of Parliament.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The supreme court arguments may well be televised, live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court in London On 18 of October, the Supreme Court will hear a case of high constitutional importance: does a criminal court in Britain have jurisdiction to try an MP accused of making a dishonest claim for expenses or are such matters exclusively within the jurisdiction of parliament and not matters for the ordinary [&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-1692","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\/1692","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=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1704,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions\/1704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}