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ISSN 2050-1706 (Print) ISSN 2050-1714 (Online) © 2013 Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law and Contributors This issue should be cited as (2013) 2(1) C.J.I.C.L. http://www.cjicl.org.uk i Editorial Board 2012-13 Editors-in-Chief JasmineMoussa BartSmitDuijzentkunst Managing Editors JastineBarrett EmmaBickerstaffe DanielCostelloe CameronMiles Sidney Richards Managing Editor of the UK Supreme Court Annual Review Shona Wilson Secretary and Treasurer Yin Harn Lee Editors Ielyzaveta Badanova Philippe Boisvert AnnSofieCloots DanielClarry TatyanaEatwell CallistaHarris GodsgloryIfezue KrishnaKakkaiyadi BulbulKhaitan LawrenceLi DemetrioMaltese AnaJúliaMaurício NatasaMavronicola ThomasMiller RowanNicholson MariaRajabali MaryRoberts ChristopherSargeant EstelleWolfers JureZrilic CJICL Blog Team DanielCostelloe NaomiBurke ValentinJeutner RobinMorris ii Academic Review Board Honorary Member and Senior Treasurer PROFESSOR JAMES CRAWFORD SC LLD, Whewell Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge and Barrister at Matrix Chambers Members DR GEERT DE BAERE, Assistant Professor DR DOMINIC DE COGAN, Leverhulme at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Early Career Research Fellow, Birmingham Law School DR FREYA BAETENS, Assistant Professor at Leiden University MR ZACHARY DOUGLAS, Associate Pro- fessor at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, and DR JOHN BARKER, Fellow of the Lauter- Barrister at Matrix Chambers pacht Centre for International Law and Fel- low of Hughes Hall DR MATTHEW DYSON, College Lecturer in Law at Trinity College, University of Cam- PROFESSOR CATHERINE BARNARD, Pro- bridge fessor and Jean Monnet Chair of European Union Law at the University of Cambridge, PROFESSOR CHARLES GARRAWAY, Fel- Co-director of the Centre for European Legal low, Human Rights Centre, University of Es- Studies and Fellow of Trinity College sex; 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[2013] Issue 1 The UK Supreme Court Annual Review Table of Contents Editor's Introduction 1 Shona Wilson Foreword 3 Matthew Ryder Part I: Commentary and Reflections Judicial Diversity: Where Do We Go From Here? 7 Shona Wilson Intervention at the UK Supreme Court 16 Lorne Neudorf Creativity in the Supreme Court 2011-12 33 Brice Dickson The Structure of Supreme Court Judgments: Eleven Ways to 41 Leave One's Mark Chris Hanretty The Selection of the Major Premise 47 William Gummow ‘A Most Difficult Case': On the Ratio of Gnango 60 Findlay Stark Scotland and the Supreme Court 67 Lord Drummond Young vi Part II: Thematic Analysis Protecting the Interests of the Child 77 Godsglory Ifezue and Maria Rajabali Criminal Law, Evidence and Procedure 86 Tatyana Eatwell and Christopher Sargeant European Dimensions 96 Demetrio Maltese and Rowan Nicholson Social Welfare 103 Ielyzaveta Badanova and Ann Sofie Cloots Treaty Interpretation before the Supreme Court 113 Callista Harris and Krishna Kakkaiyadi Part III: The 2011–12 Legal Year in Overview Overview: Civil Procedure 121 Jure Zrilic Overview: Constitutional and Administrative Law 125 Philippe Boisvert Overview: Criminal Law 128 Estelle Wolfers Overview: Economic and Safety Regulation 131 Thomas J Miller Overview: European Law 136 Ana Júlia Maurício Overview: Family Law 140 Natasa Mavronicola Overview: Human Rights 145 Bulbul Khaitan Overview: Immigration Law 150 Mary Roberts Overview: International Law 154 Mary Roberts Overview: Local Government 157 Philippe Boisvert vii Overview: Private Law 160 Lawrence Li Overview: Tax Law 165 Ana Júlia Maurício Part IV: Composition and Statistics AppendixA:CompositionoftheSupremeCourt 168 AppendixB:Statistics 170 viii DOI: 10.7574/cjicl.02.01.91 Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law (2)1: 1–2 (2013) Editor’s Introduction Shona Wilson* This special edition of the