Supreme Court Website

This series contains dated gathered versions (or 'snapshots') of The Supreme Court website.

[Please note: These records may be accessed via the UK Government Web Archive using the links listed below (for a general explanation of these parallel links, please see the Arrangement field)]:

Supreme Court (MoJ website) (http://www.justice.gov.uk/about/supremecourt.htm).

Supreme Court (http://www.supremecourt.gov.uk/index.html).

Supreme Court (http://supremecourt.uk/).

Please see information at Divisional level.

This series contains more than one link to the ‘snapshots’ of this website. For some websites, the URL may change periodically. Despite this change to the URL these websites are part of the same record series as they represent the department or organisation’s presence on the web at the time. Occasionally, more than one domain URL to the same website may run in parallel creating an overlap.

For other records of The Supreme Court, please see: UKSC

• Ministry of Justice, 2007-2007
• Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, 2009-2009

Topics

Official publications

The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom is the supreme court (court of last resort, highest appellate court) in all matters under English law, Welsh law, Northern Irish law and Scottish civil law. It was officially opened at the start of the legal year in October 2009 having been established by Part 3 of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, and has assumed the jurisdiction of the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords and the devolution jurisdiction of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. It is an independent institution, presided over by twelve independently appointed judges, known as Justices of the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court sits in the Middlesex Guildhall in Westminster.