London, Ocotber 01: British legal history is made today as a new Supreme Court takes over from the House of Lords as the highest court in the land.
The Supreme Court will be housed in the newly refurbished Middlesex Guildhall
For the first time, cases will be broadcast live, in a move some legal experts believe could pave the way for more widespread televising of legal proceedings.
It also marks the end of an almost century and half association with Parliament, as Law Lords and the court itself shifts from the Palaces of Westminster to a refursbished former court house nearby.
The Supreme Court is the result of the Constitutional Reform Act of 2005, aimed at separating the highest appeal court from the upper house of Parliament, and remove the Law Lords from the legislature.
—Agencies