The United Kingdom’s Supreme Court: Three Skeptical Reflections Concerning the New Court

Established by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, the United Kingdom Supreme Court is now the highest appellate court within the United Kingdom, replacing the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords. The Supreme Court sits in the former Middlesex Guildhall, on the western side of Parliament Square, facing the Houses of Parliament (the cost of this move was circa $100 million or £60 million). It sat for the first time in October 2009.