{"id":85020,"date":"2017-10-04T08:30:23","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T08:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=8cc2db94ed60ab93e65236bf207929fe"},"modified":"2017-10-04T08:30:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T08:30:23","slug":"speech-opening-of-the-legal-year-october-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=85020","title":{"rendered":"Speech: Opening of the legal year October 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The wheels of justice, they say, turn slowly.<\/p>\n<p>Well, not this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Between the Royal Courts of Justice, the Supreme Court and Westminster Abbey, we have dealt with a very full caseload \u2013 and it\u2019s still only breakfast time.<\/p>\n<p>As well as opening a new legal year, we have welcomed two exceptional leaders for the senior judiciary. A new Lord Chief Justice, Sir Ian Burnett, and a new President of the Supreme Court, Lady Hale.<\/p>\n<p>We must also say our farewells, to Lord Thomas and Lord Neuberger. They have served the justice system with distinction, dignity and energy.<\/p>\n<p>We have many challenges ahead but I am confident that we have a judiciary eminently well equipped to deal with them. They are fearsomely experienced and rightly independent of the executive \u2013 but like all of us here they still need a good breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>So will you please join me in raising a glass in a toast: To the future \u2013 and to the past.<\/p>\n<p>And now, as Shakespeare recommended, let us<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Do as adversaries in law \u2013 strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord Chancellor&#8217;s breakfast welcoming remarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}