'A great conspicuous tribunal…”?: reflections on the passing of the Appellate Committee and the creation of the new UK Supreme Court

摘要

With building work having begun on the new UK Supreme Court, this article looks at how the final court of appeal came to be part of the upper chamber of a legislature in the first place and, drawing on an analysis of the Law Lords’ attendance, considers what, if anything, stands to be lost in the change to a separate Supreme Court.