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Jonathan Sumption

June 2024

  • Police searching a protester in Hong Kong

    Hong Kong is ‘slowly becoming a totalitarian state​’, says UK judge

    ​L​ord Sumption, who last week quit territory’s top court​, speaks out on ‘paranoid atmosphere’ under Chinese rule

March 2024

  • Catherine Bennett

    Thanks, chaps, for trying to reform the Garrick from within. We’re OK without

    Catherine Bennett
    With such a roll call of gargoyles, women would surely refrain from joining the exclusive London club anyway

June 2022

  • Nicola Sturgeon is received by the Queen at Holyroodhouse

    Scottish independence campaigners galvanise grassroots after SNP reveals plans

    Politicians and activists need to push support for early referendum well above 50% to bolster case

April 2021

  • An empty crown court

    Lawyers counsel against ‘virtual hearings’ to tackle backlog of cases

    ‘Expression, atmosphere and manner’ cannot be assessed via video link, warn experts in response to crime bill

March 2021

  • Catherine Bennett

    Just what will it take to get our judges to see sense on violence against women?

    Catherine Bennett
  • Jonathan Sumption

    Book of the day
    Law in a Time of Crisis by Jonathan Sumption review – beyond the lockdown sceptic

January 2021

  • Lord Sumption

    Experts unconvinced by Lord Sumption's lockdown ethics

    Critics of retired supreme court justice say QALYs measure not intended for public health debate
  • Martin Rowson 19.1.21

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Martin Rowson on Lord Sumption's 'life less valuable' comments — cartoon

    The former supreme court justice Jonathan Sumption has been criticised for telling a woman with stage 4 cancer that her life was ‘less valuable’ during a televised discussion of the costs of coronavirus lockdowns
  • Lord Sumption

    Lord Sumption tells stage 4 cancer patient her life is 'less valuable'

    Former justice’s remark made to woman with bowel cancer during TV debate on Covid lockdowns

November 2020

  • A volunteer leaves a food delivery for a family who are self-isolating.

    Coronavirus laws and the difficult balance of personal freedoms

    Letters: Ellen van der Bij and Dr Robin Murphy on the views of the former supreme court justice Jonathan Sumption

October 2020

  • Signs in Amersham, Buckinghamshire

    The Guardian view on a second wave of Covid-19: getting freedom wrong

    Editorial: As France and Germany impose tough measures and infections continue to rise, the UK appears gripped by paralysis
  • Jonathan Sumption

    Hysteria and rushed laws 'more harmful than Covid', say campaigners

    Critics of UK government policy say restrictions on liberty are inhumane and destroying quality of life
  • Jonathan Sumption

    Covid-19 investigations
    Covid measures will be seen as 'monument of collective hysteria and folly' says ex-judge

    Jonathan Sumption, former British supreme court justice, slams ‘cavalier use of coercive powers’ and ‘loss of freedom’

April 2020

  • Catherine Bennett

    A growing clamour of voices treats the pandemic as if it's just health and safety gone mad

    Catherine Bennett
    Far too many are making a ‘commonsense’ case for relaxing restrictions

August 2019

  • Jonathan Sumption

    No-deal Brexit 'legally possible even after no-confidence vote'

    Ex-supreme court judge says MPs have limited options to stop PM enacting no deal

May 2019

  • Catherine Bennett

    Welcome to Planet Rumpole, where rank misogyny still holds sway

    Catherine Bennett
    The law remains a hostile environment for women. What does that say about the judges supposed to uphold it?

April 2019

  • Lord Sumption

    Ex-supreme court justice defends those who break assisted dying law

    ‘No moral obligation to obey law,’ says Jonathan Sumption in opening Reith Lectures speech

December 2016

  • Lord Sumption

    Supreme court Brexit hearing: 10 things we learned

  • David Neuberger

    Profile: the 11 justices of the UK supreme court

October 2015

  • Judge Alexandra Marks

    Number of female judges in UK 'snowballing' despite equality row

    Exclusive: Judge Alexandra Marks says more women are being appointed and dismisses claim that ‘rush’ for gender parity will damage justice
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