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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 January 2020
The Willi Steiner Memorial Lecture 2019 was delivered at the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians’ Annual Conference by Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, DBE,1 the President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. Lady Hale reflected upon some of the major changes in the law and access to justice since she was an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge and Willi Steiner was Law Librarian at the Squire Law Library. Her lecture coincided with BIALL's fiftieth anniversary year and focused on five significant developments: the explosion of judicial review of administrative action, the arrival of EU law, the growth of international human rights law, the recognition of gender and other equality, and devolution and the evolution of a new constitutional role for the courts.
1 With grateful thanks to my Judicial Assistant, Penelope Gorman, for her thoughts and her research.
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8 SI 1977/1955, rule 5.
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17 [2014] UKSC 3, [2014] 1 WLR 324.
18 Golder v United Kingdom (1978-79) 1 EHRR 524.
19 Sunday Times v United Kingdom (1978-79) 2 EHRR 245.
20 Dudgeon v United Kingdom (1982) 4 EHRR 149.
21 X v United Kingdom (1982) 4 EHRR 188.
22 Abulaziz, Cabales and Balkandali v United Kingdom (1985) 7 EHRR 471.
23 Malone v United Kingdom (1985) 7 EHRR 14.
24 H v United Kingdom (1988) 10 EHRR 95.
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26 North v Dumfries and Galloway Council [2013] UKSC 45, 2013 SC (UKSC) 298.
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31 Before the creation of the Supreme Court, such cases were heard in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council rather than the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords.
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34 Re Recovery of Medical Costs for Asbestos Diseases (Wales) Bill [2015] UKSC 3, [2015] AC 1016
35 Re UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Legal Continuity) (Scotland) Bill [2018] UKSC 64, [2019] 2 WLR 1.
