Found: arbitrators were very experienced, including Sir Anthony Evans (former Lord Justice of Appeal), and Lord

Found: Christopher Clarke, Ms Emilie Gonin, Mr Salim Moollan KC, Lord Nicholas Phillips, Sir Bernard Rix, and Lord

Found: Professor Mills’ draft as reamended by the Brick Court group, if I can call them loosely that, and Lord

Found: Before the Law Commission, we had Lord Hoffmann, Lord Mance, Lord Phillips, Sir Richard Aikens, Sir

Found: Lord Hoffmann expressed a similar concern:5 “However, I am afraid that, as I think my noble and learned

Found: Written Evidence from Lord Hoffmann I said at second reading that it would be better if subsection

Found: We respectfully adopt the comments of Lord Hope of Craighead and Lord Hoffmann: https://hansard.parliament.uk

Found: positive impact on the arbitration market in the United Kingdom, noting in particular the comments of Lord

Found: Reform of the [Act] arising out of the recent interpretation of Section 4(5) of the Act in Enka” by Lord

Found: The Lord Hoffmann at Hansard 19 December 2023 Grand Committee Col 429GC-430GC and 433GC to 434GC.

Found: That is something on which Lord Hoffmann expressed a view in Second Reading.

Found: — by Professor Ekins and others, with a foreword by Lord Hoffmann, which says that you can ignore interim

Found: — by Professor Ekins and others, with a foreword by Lord Hoffmann, which says that you can ignore interim

Found: Re D’Jan of London [1993] BCC 646 (solvent cases but where the s.214 provisions are discussed by Lord

Found: relation to the precedent set by a judicial Committee of the House of Lords, when a decision in which Lord

Found: The House of Lords rejected the contention, Lord Hoffmann recorded: “EIA.

Found: As Lord Hoffmann stated in Re G ‘the margin of appreciation is there for division between the three

Found: R (Nasseri) v SSHD [2009] UKHL 23 per Lord Hoffmann at paras 23-25 and 36-3912 See e.g.

Found: The principle, which was described by Lord Hoffmann in a case about 15 years ago, is that they are actually

Found: The seeds of a more 18flexible approach are evident in Lord Hoffmann™s judgment in the Privy Council

Found: Lord Hoffmann, for example, has served on it since the 1997 withdrawal—what is that?

Found: Lord Hoffmann, ‚The Universality of Human Rights™, Judicial Studies Board Annual Lecture, 19 March 2009

Found: giving effect to what would, apart from the statute, have been the law.5 3 Rejecting statements by Lord

Found: As you know, that has been heavily criticised by senior British judges, Lord Sumption and Lord Hoffmann

Found: Lord Hoffmann, long retired from the House of Lords, once put it very well when he said words to

Found: best known formulation of what has been called the 'principle of legality' comes from the speech of Lord

Found: unanimous opinion of the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords (comprising of Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord

Found: It is relevant because of Lord Hoffmann™s comment (at 502) on how the philosophical underpinning of tort

Found: In Simms, Lord Hoffmann famously held that Parliamentary sovereignty means that Parliament can, if it

Found: with the decision of the House of Lords in Wildtree Hotels Ltd v Harrow LBC [2000] UKHL70 in which Lord

Found: In the Simms case, Lord Hoffmann™s statement makes it very clear that it would be possible for Parliament

Found: approach, and the way in which he left the issue to the jury, reflects the thinking behind statements of Lord

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Scott of Bybrook on 31 March (HL7587), which (1) retired judges who served in courts in England or Wales, or (2) British citizens, continue to serve as judges in Hong Kong's judicial system, if any.

Answered by Baroness Scott of Bybrook - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)

There are six retired UK judges who on 31 March, issued a statement confirming their continued participation as Non- Permanent Members on the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal.

• Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers
• Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury
• Lord Sumption
• Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe
• Lord Collins of Mapesbury
• Lord Hoffmann

Found: Withdrawal Agreement, and “accepting the political cost”.65 This is a legal test, previously outlined by Lord

Found: Hoffmann expressed regret that the move towards a more formal separation of powers represented an “

Found: Court, having since retired from that post (o f which two are former Presidents); and • one UK judge, Lord

Found: override the fundamental right to legally privileged communications – see for example the judgment of Lord

Found: (striking out a negligence claim at a preliminary stage rather than permitting it to go to trial), Lord

I respectfully disagree. I do so because parliamentary sovereignty means that, ultimately, Parliament can legislate contrary to human rights standards, if it uses sufficiently clear words and accepts the political cost. See eg per Lord Hoffmann in Simms [2000] 2 AC 115, 131 ⬇️ https://t.co/BYFw85xVoj https://t.co/9jBztjHcbT

Found: does not place the United Kingdom in breach of its international obligations: see, for example, per Lord

Found: the Lord Hoffmann, starting 12 January 2022 The Chief Executive also extended the terms of office

Found: does not place the United Kingdom in breach of its international obligations: see, for example, per Lord

Found: Lord Hoffmann, in ex parte Simms, explains the extent of this Sovereignty for the purposes of statutory

Found: As Lord Hoffmann said in R v North Yorkshire County Council ex parte Brown [2000] 1 AC 397, at page

Found: Lord Hoffmann, a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary from 1995 to 2009, has expressed his concern about this

Found: fluence its meaning: see Chartbrook Ltd v Persimmon Homes Ltd [2009] UKHL 38 , [2009] 1 AC 1101 per Lord

Found: Serco Limited [2006] IC R 250, Lord Hoffmann noted that the right to pursue a claim for unfair dismissal

Found: In Lawson , Lord Hoffmann noted that the right to pursue a claim for unfair dismissal under the Employment

Found: parties would have understood them to be using the language in the contract to mean ”, to quote Lord

Found: Lord Hoffmann, who had great expertise in tax law , would of course have been aware of the long-established

Found: In R (Bancoult) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (No. 2) [2009] AC 453 , Lord

Found: additional words or sub -paragraphs to emphasise what would otherwise be inferred from the provision (see Lord

Found: happened in practice may shed light on the contractual position: see Carmichael (above), esp. per Lord

Found: As Lord Hoffmann said in Piglowska v Pilowsk i [1999] 1 WLR 1360, at 1372B -H: “The exigencies of

Found: [2010] 1 AC 25 678, and in particular her statement, in paragraph 11, approving the statement o f Lord

Found: Per Lord Hoffmann at 912: The principles may be summarised as follows.

Found: (5) In Lawson Lord Hoffmann, with whose opinion the other members of the Appellate Committee agreed

Found: meaning’ is not always very helpful (Charter Reinsurance Co Ltd v Fagan [1997] AC 313 , 391C, per Lord

Found: natural meaning is not always very helpful (Charter Reinsurance Co Ltd v Fagan [1997] AC 313, 391C, per Lord

Found: As explained by Lord Hoffmann in NEC Semi - Conductors Ltd & other test claimants v Inland Revenue

Found: intrinsically legal one and observed that his judgment seemed to hark back to a distinction drawn by Lord

Found: giving the judgme nt of the House of Lords In Re Pinochet where their Lordships concluded that Lord

Found: this in Rockwater v Technip [2004] EWCA (Civ) 381: Biogen v Medeva [1997] RPC 1 at p. 45 Lord

Found: However, it is limited to cases that involve an 'element of bounty' or, as Lord Hoffmann p ut it in

Found: Laddie J in paragraphs 27 to 30 of Telsonic AG's Patent [2004] EWHC 474 (Ch) , [2004] RPC 38 and of Lord

Found: the Lord Hoffmann, start ing 12 January 2022 The Chief Executive also extended the terms of office