jnloyal
Well-Known Member
Appreciate this may well be a long shot but bear with me.
Lord Hodge was sworn in as deputy president of the UKSC yesterday which resulted in Scottish justices now holding the two most senior legal positions in the country.
Lord Wilson who was delivering one of the opening speeches stated amongst other things that “The Law School at Edinburgh is justified in its expression of pride in its two great sons. Today, the whole of Scotland will be celebrating – well except, possibly, in Ibrox.”
Lord Hodge was one of the five justices who found in favour of HMRC but as that was a Scottish case he was always going to be involved in that case. He was also the Court of Session judge who approved Rangers liquidation but again there was nothing he really could do about that.
This might be a private football joke between the two justices but just found it to be a bizarre statement to make by a supreme court justice.
Anyone any ideas as to the back story to this?
Lord Hodge was sworn in as deputy president of the UKSC yesterday which resulted in Scottish justices now holding the two most senior legal positions in the country.
Lord Wilson who was delivering one of the opening speeches stated amongst other things that “The Law School at Edinburgh is justified in its expression of pride in its two great sons. Today, the whole of Scotland will be celebrating – well except, possibly, in Ibrox.”
Lord Hodge was one of the five justices who found in favour of HMRC but as that was a Scottish case he was always going to be involved in that case. He was also the Court of Session judge who approved Rangers liquidation but again there was nothing he really could do about that.
This might be a private football joke between the two justices but just found it to be a bizarre statement to make by a supreme court justice.
Anyone any ideas as to the back story to this?