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SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED KINGDOMis to hear appeals from courts in the UK’s three legal systems:England and Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. TheSupreme Court acts as the highest court for civil appeals from theCourt of Session in Scotland, but the highest appeal for criminalcases is in Scotland.

Permission to appeal from the Court of Session is not requiredand any case can proceed to the Supreme Court of the UK if twoAdvocates certify that an appeal is suitable. In England, Walesand Northern Ireland, in contrast, permission to appeal isrequired, either from the Court of Appeal or from a Justice of theSupreme Court itself.

The Supreme Court's focus is on cases that raise points of law ofgeneral public importance. Appeals from many fields of law arelikely to be selected for hearing, including commercial disputes,family matters, judicial review claimsagainst public authorities and issues underthe Human Rights Act 1998. The SupremeCourt also hears some criminal appeals,but not from Scotland.

A case is heard by a panel of 5 justices,though sometimes the panel may consistof 3, 7 or 9 members. All 12 justices arealso members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

A consulation paper published by theDepartment of Constitutional Affairs in2003 argued that the separation of thejudicial functions of the Judicial Committeeof the House of Lords from the legislativefunctions of the House of Lords should bemade explicit. During 2004, a select committee of the House of Lords scruti-nised the arguments for and against set-ting up a new court. The Government estimated the set-up cost of the SupremeCourt at £56.9 million.

The Supreme Court was established byPart 3 of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 and started work on1st October 2009. It assumed the judicial functions of the House of Lords, which were exercised bythe Lords of Appeal in Ordinary or "Law Lords", the 12 professional judges appointed as members of the House of Lordsto carry out its judicial business. Its jurisdiction over devolutionmatters had previously been held by the Judicial Committee ofthe Privy Council.

Before 1st October 2009 there were two other courts known assupreme court, namely the Supreme Court of England andWales, and the Supreme Court of Judicature in Northern Ireland,each of which consisted of a Court of Appeal, a High Court ofJustice and a Crown Court. When the provisions of theConstitutional Reform Act 2005 came into force these becameknown as the Senior Courts of England and Wales and the Courtof Judicature of Northern Ireland

The court is composed of the President and Deputy Presidentand 10 puisne Justices of the Supreme Court. Supreme Courtjustices are obliged to retire at age 70 if first appointed to a judicial office after 31st March 1995, or at age 75 otherwise. ThePresident and Deputy President of the court are separatelyappointed to those roles.

Ten Lords of Appeal in Ordinary (Law Lords) holding office on 1stOctober 2009 became the first justices ofthe 12-member Supreme Court. The 11thplace on the Supreme Court was filled byLord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony, whowas the first Justice to be appointeddirectly to the Supreme Court. One of theformer Law Lords was appointed toreplace Lord Clarke as Master of theRolls. Sir John Dyson became the 12thjustice of the Supreme Court in 2010.

In addition to the 12 permanent Justices,the President may request other seniorjudges, drawn from two groups, to sit as"acting judges" of the Supreme Court.

The Constitutional Reform Act 2005makes provision for a new appointmentprocess for Justices of the Supreme Courtwhich was adopted on a voluntary basisfor appointments of Lords of Appeal inOrdinary in 2007. New judges appointedto the Supreme Court after its creation willnot necessarily receive peerages; however, they are given the courtesy titleof Lord or Lady upon appointment.

Court 1 in the Supreme Court building is housed in MiddlesexGuildhall — which it shares with the Judicial Committee of thePrivy Council. After a lengthy survey of suitable sites, it wasannounced that the new court would be located in the MiddlesexGuildhall, in Parliament Square. Westminster City Council grant-ed planning permission for refurbishment works. The building hadformerly been used as the headquarters of Middlesex CountyCouncil and the Middlesex Quarter Sessions, and later as aCrown Court centre.

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THE VICTORIA PALACE THEATREin Victoria Street was designed by Frank Matcham and opened in1911 on the site of two music hall buildings from the second halfof the 19th century which had both been demolished. The theatrebegan life as a small concert room above the stables of theRoyal Standard Hotel, at what was then 522 Stockbridge Terrace.The proprietor, John Moy, enlarged the building, and by 1850 itbecame known as Moy's Music Hall. Alfred Brown took it over in1863, refurbished it, and calling it the Royal Standard Music Hall.The hotel was demolished in 1886, at a time when the area hadtransformed into a transport hub.

The Royal Standard, was demolished in 1910, and in its placewas built, at a cost of £12,000, The Victoria Palace. It wasdesigned by prolific theatre architect Frank Matcham, andopened November 6th, 1911. The original design featured a sliding roof that helped cool the auditorium during intervals in thesummer months.

Under impresario Alfred Butt, the Victoria Palace Theatre continued themusical theatre tradi-tion by presentingmainly varieties, andunder latermanagements, repertory andrevues. In1934, thetheatre presentedYoungEngland, apatriotic play written by theRev. WalterReynolds,and receivedbad reviewsthat itbecame a

cult hit.

A return to revue brought new success with Me and My Girl in1937 starring Lupino Lane. In 1945 variety was presented underthe stewardship of Lupino Lane. Headlining was Will Hay,Charles Hawtrey and John Clark. From 1947 through 1962, JackHylton produced The Crazy Gang series of comedy revues, withFlanagan and Allen, Nervo and Knox, and Naughton and Gold.

The Black and White Minstrel Show played through the 1960s until1972. The Buddy Holly Story played for 13 years in London, beginningin 1989. In 2005, Billy Elliot the Musical opened.

The theatre has been owned by Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen since1991. At the opening in 1911, a gilded statue of ballerina AnnaPavlova had been installed above the cupola of the theatre. This wastaken down for its safety during World War II, and was lost. In 2006, areplica of the original statue was restored in its place.

Following the recent purchase of the theatre by Sir CameronMackintosh, the big question is: what happens to Billy Elliot, whichcelebrates its 10th birthday in 2015. Mackintosh has ambitious plansto significantly improve the theatre which requires its closure foraround 12 months from autumn 2016, to tie in with surrounding redevelopment work. The stage will be extended by 6 metres, thefront of house enlarged and completely overhauled and the auditoriumand exterior restored to its full glory. The options are closure or findanother home. Billy Elliot's prospects at finding a suitable new homeare strong. It is currently booking until May 2015.

MONEY LAUNDERINGof more than £100 million by the owner of Premier Exchange inVictoria, and two of his employees have resulted in them being jailed.

The court heard how the men’s underworld contacts would queue withunsuspecting tourists to exchange bags of “dirty” money, includingcash from drug deals, for “clean” €500 notes — used because theywere easy to conceal.

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WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL PRIMARY SCHOOL 50 YEARANNIVERSARYFifty years ago, in 1963 Westminster Cathedral Primary Schoolrelocated to Bessborough Place – its current home! It is this movethat is being remembering and celebrating. This academic year istheir fiftieth year on the Bessborough site.

On the 4th of July past and present friends of WestminsterCathedral Primary School will join together for a special mass celebrated by Parish Priest Canon Pat Browne and Bishop NickHudson.

Past pupils and teachers have been invited back to speak to thecurrent pupils and share their memories of their time at the school.Pupils are completing history projects to mark the anniversary anda museum has been set up in the school hall to exhibit a numberof items that have been kindly lent by past friends.

Thomas Doherty, will be celebrating his first year as Headteacherof this wonderful school and is honoured to be leading the schoolduring such a special year. The celebrations have enabled him tofind out much about the distinguished history of the school and themessage ‘you have a great deal to live up to’ is strong and loud!

The school was founded around 1849 and dedicated to St. Mary. Itwas first housed in two cottages in Horseferry Road and in 1850was moved to Great Peter Street. Originally administered fromFarm Street by the Jesuit Fathers, it was taken over by theWestminster Cathedral Authorities when the Cathedral was built in1903.

Mrs Cotter has been an inspirational lady who taught at the schoolfrom 1949 - 1986, and is a person respected, admired and loved.Mrs Cotter still lives locally and has been in contact with the schoolto ensure that she, along with many others can be part of ourmany celebrations.

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Past pupils, families and staff will make 50 years of WestminsterCathedral Primary School worth celebrating.


MASAKI YADAThe Modernity of the MasterpieceSometimes the infinitely small can encapsulate the infinitely large.This happens in the paintings of the talented Japanese painterMasaki Yada. These will be displayed at Ransom gallery: 105 PimlicoRoad, from the 24th May 2014. In his small and fascinating artworksthis artist portrays an entire cosmos of eternal questions, symbolsand perfection. Masaki attempts to modernize the lost visual lan-

guage that wascultivated byDutch and Flemishold Masters of the17th century: heachieves this byfocusing on detailand creating vortexes ofthoughts andcolours thatenchant the viewer of his paintings.

An attentivebeholder can per-ceive various influences in hisartworks, from thevisionary

imagination and impeccable technique of the past Masters of the pastsuch as Hieronymus Bosch, Johannes Vermeer, Jan Van Eyck,Willem van Aelst and Rachel Ruysch; to the abstractions of recentpainters like: William De Kooning, Barnet Newman, Francis Bacon,Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke.

Through Masaki’s imagery, the eternal language of the Dutch oldMasters tells us stories of human desire, of life and death, ofephemeral love and hate, of ego and human vanity. As the artist him-self claims: “My art practice is like opening the coffins of old mastersto discover treasures that buried with them like golden daggers andjewels”.Exhibition: 25th June - 23rd July

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JENNY'S WHIMwas a wooden bridge which spanned the Grosvenor canal at whatis now Ebury Bridge and gave onto Willow Walk which crossed themarshland of Pimlico. A tavern and pleasure gardens of the samename stood here, offering tea, ale, amusing deceptions, devicestriggered by hidden springs, and floating mermaids; the price of apot of ale included entrance to Perrot's Inimitable Grotto while a

decanter of Dorchester ale and a turn of duck-hunting cost 6d.Though Willow Walk was home to highwaymen and footpads,Jenny’s Whim became a popular entertainment spots, even atnight when it was a favoured destination for young couples. It wasfollowed by The Monster tavern nearby was also the starting pointfor horse-drawn omnibuses. Bombs destroyed it on 17th April, 1941.

A GERMAN U-BOAT captured German U-boat at Westminster at the end of the FirstWorld War. The submarine was commissioned in 1917 and in itsshort career of just over a year at sea its three patrol commanderssank sixty-six ships, not including naval warships. It was surren-dered on 24th November 1918 and exhibited at various locationsbefore being broken up in 1922.The cost to view theU-boat was 6d withthe proceeds going tonaval and mercantilecharities.The firstbatch of twentyGerman U-boats wassurrendered to Admiral Tyrwhitt’s command at Harwich on 20thNovember 1918.The German crews were transferred to a transport to take them back home. A newspaperarticle at the time described them lining the decks ‘sullen anddejected but obviously interested in the historic scene’. A squadronof seaplanes flew so low that the ‘disconsolate crews must haveheard the ironic good mornings addressed by the merry pilots’. Bythe end of the year the remaining hundred or so of the Germansubmarines had been handed over to the British Navy in accor-dance with the armistice conditions.Angela Lownie provides an individual house history researchservice for London properties. www.londonhousehistories.co.uk


THE PIMLICO MYSTERY OR THE PIMLICO POISONING MYSTERY is the name given to the circumstances surrounding the 1886 deathof Thomas Edwin Bartlett, possibly at the hands of his wife.

The heart of the Pimlico Mystery is the relationship between a grocer,Mr. Thomas Edwin Bartlett, his younger French-born wife Adelaide

Blanche de la Tremoille, andthe Reverend George Dyson.Edwin suffered severalunpleasant illnesses, and wassupposedly something of afaddist. Adelaide's father wasrumoured to be a wealthy andpossibly even titled member ofQueen Victoria's entourage.

The couples marriage in 1875,according to Adelaide, wasintended to be a platonic marriage, but in 1881 she hada stillborn baby by Edwin.

Early in 1885, they met Dyson, a Wesleyan minister who became theexecutor of Edwin’s will, in which he left his estate to Adelaide.

Adelaide asked Dyson to get some chloroform that was prescribed bythe doctor treating Edwin. Dyson bought 4 small bottles of chloroforminstead of 1 large bottle, from several shops, claiming that he neededit to remove grease stains.

On New Year's Eve, 1885, Edwin returned home and went to sleepalongside Adelaide. Just before 4am the next morning Adelaideasked their maid to fetch Dr Leach, fearing Edwin was dead, beforerousing the landlady. Edwin's stomach was filled with liquid chloroform. Edwin's alleged suicide might have been believed but forhis suspicious father, who detested Adelaide and had earlier accusedher of having an affair with Edwin's younger brother.

An inquest returned a verdict of willful murder by Adelaide Bartlett,with George Dyson being an accessory before the fact. The trialopened on 12th April 1886, when charges against Dyson weredropped. Adelaide Bartlett barrister was able to show sufficient ambiguities against the deceased to make the suicide theory barelypossible. His tactics were sufficient to gain his client an acquittal. The"suicide" theory gained ground, despite evidence given that on thelast evening of his life, Edwin Bartlett told his maid to have a sumptuous dinner prepared for him on the next day - hardly theaction of a man contemplating suicide.

Adelaide was not able to testify in her own defence, and the defencecalled no witnesses. The main forensic aid is that liquid chloroformburns. It cannot pass down to the stomach without burning the sidesof the throat and the larynx. Edwin did not have such burns; suggesting that he was actually gulped the chloroform down quickly.There was insufficient evidence to show how or by whom the chloro-form was administered.

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QUEEN ELIZABETH II CONFERENCE CENTREsite was previously occupied by several buildings. At the northernend of the site were the headquarters of the Stationery Office whichhad originally been the "Parliamentary Mews" built in 1825 byDecimus Burton and converted in 1853-5. The southern side wasoccupied by the Westminster Hospital built by W & H W Inwood in1831-4 and expanded later that century and in 1924. The previousbuildings became surplus to requirements in 1950 and were demol-ished; designs were drawn up by Thomas Tait for building a newColonial Office on the site; however only the foundations had beenbuilt by the time progress was halted in 1952.

In 1958 it was decided that there would be an open space on thesouthern edge of the site by Broad Sanctuary, and an architecturalcompetition for a conference hall and government offices was held in1961. The competition was won by William Whitfield but the schemewas not progressed due to the plans for redeveloping Whitehalldrawn up by Leslie Martin in 1965. The site remained in limbo until afeasibility study for the conference centre was drawn up in 1975. Thecentre as eventually built was designed by Powell Moya & Partnersand constructed by Bovis Construction with work starting in 1981. Itwas opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1986.

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ALFRED TENNYSON, 1ST BARON TENNYSON, FRSwas born August 6th, 1809, at Somersby, Lincolnshire. He had a lifelong fear of mental illness. In 1827 Tennyson went to study atTrinity College, Cambridge, where his tutor was William Whewell. In1829 he was invited to join The Apostles. The group, which met todiscuss major philosophical and other issues, included Arthur HenryHallam, James Spedding, Edward Lushington, and RichardMonckton Milnes.

Arthur Hallam's was the most important of these friendships. Hallam,another precociously brilliant Victorian

young man like Robert Browning,John Stuart Mill, and

Matthew Arnold, was uni-formly recognized by his

contemporaries (includ-ing William Gladstone,his best friend atEton) as having unusual

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other only four years, buttheir intense friendship had

major influence on the poet. On avisit to Somersby, Hallam met and later became engaged to EmilyTennyson, and the two friends looked forward to a life-long companionship. Hallam's death from illness in 1833 shockedTennyson profoundly, and his grief lead to most of his best poetry,including In Memoriam , "The Passing of Arthur", "Ulysses," and"Tithonus."

The success of his 1842 Poems made Tennyson a popular poet, andin 1845 he received a Civil List pension of £200 a year, whichhelped relieve his financial difficulties; the success of "The Princess"and In Memoriam and his appointment in 1850 as Poet Laureatefinally established him as the most popular poet of the Victorian era.

By the age of 41, Tennyson had written some of his greatest poetry.His friendship with Prince Albert helped solidify his position as thenational poet. Tennyson dedicated The Idylls of the King to his memory. Queen Victoria later summoned him to court several times,and at her insistence he accepted his title, having declined it whenoffered by both Disraeli and Gladstone.

Tennyson’s extreme short-sightedness caused him difficulty in writingand reading. He composed much of his poetry in his head. During hisundergraduate days at Cambridge he often did not bother to writedown his compositions.

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WESTMINSTER BRIDGEThe first serious attempt to obtain authority for a bridge atWestminster was made in 1664. The arguments against thebridge were put forward by the City Corporation, the watermenand other vested interests claiming that if a new bridge werebuilt, many watermen would lose their jobs. Opponents of thebridge came up with an unsecured and interest free loan of£100,000 to the King from the City Corporation. The King accepted the bribe, and refused permission for the bridge.

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