Lady Rose visited Cambridge on 3rd February 2025 at Newnham College, as a guest on the Cambridge University Law Society (CULS) Speaker programme. She spoke to CULS about her career, the landmark decisions she has contributed to since her appointment to the Supreme Court in 2021, and the functioning and evolving role of the Supreme Court.

Lady Rose was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn in 1984. She practised as a barrister for ten years before joining the Government Legal Service. She served in HM Treasury, the Ministry of Defence and the Office of Counsel to the Speaker of the House of Commons. In 2006 she was appointed to her first judicial role as a fee-paid Chairman of the Competition Appeal Tribunal. She was appointed to further tribunal posts and became a Recorder in the Crown Court, Criminal jurisdiction in 2010. In May 2013 Dame Vivien was sworn in as a High Court Judge in the Chancery Division where she sat for over five years. She was appointed to the Court of Appeal in January 2019 and to the Supreme Court in April 2021.

In her role as a Justice of the Supreme Court, Lady Rose has been involved in a number of important cases across the range of the Court’s work from public law challenges concerning human rights and Scottish devolution issues, to tax cases and common law contract and tort cases.

Our introductory speakers in this episode are Joyce Mau (CULS President 2024-2025) and Kai Zhen Tek (CULS Speakers Secretary 2024-2025), who also organised the event.

The following cases are mentioned in this talk:

• Hassam and Another v Rabot and Another [2024] UKSC 11
• Independent Workers Union of Great Britain v Central Arbitration Committee and Another [2023] UKSC 43
• R (on the application of O v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] UKSC 3
• In the matter of an application by Rosaleen Dalton for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland) [2023] UKSC 36
• McCulloch v Forth Valley Health Board [2023] UKSC 26
• R (on the application of Elan-Cane) (Art 8 male/female passports) [2021] UKSC 56
• Reference by the Lord Advocate of devolution issues under paragraph 34 of Schedule 6 to the Scotland Act 1998 (the “indyref2” case) [2022] UKSC 31
• Reference by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland -Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Northern Ireland) Bill [2022] UKSC 32

This episode was edited by Jiwon Heo (CULS Publicity Secretary 2024-2025).

Welcome to CULSCAST 🎙️, the new Podcast from the Cambridge University Law Society, one of the world’s oldest and largest student-run societies, founded in 1901.

This is Episode 3 of our ‘CULSCAST Conversations’ series, which aims to bring the Cambridge law community closer together through conversation. This episode covers studying, revision, and exam tips from top-performing Cambridge law students. Give our socials a follow to get regular updates on the wonderful CULS events happening throughout term!

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About this episode:

• For Cambridge law students, Easter term is exam season. We know that this can be a tough period for many, especially those doing their Tripos exams for the first time. Therefore, we have prepared an episode on study, revision, and exam tips to guide current and future students, in collaboration with our 2024-2025 Per Inc team.
• Per Inc is CULS’s termly magazine publishing both student articles and first-class law essays and PQs. You can read the latest issues here. Our panellists for this episode included the Per Incuriam Editor-in-Chief 2024-2025 and contributors from our Michaelmas 2024 edition.
• The host for today's episode is Jiwon Heo, a second-year student reading law at Cambridge, and one of CULS’s Publicity Officers 2024-2025.
• The contents of this episode were recorded at the Cambridge Law Faculty on 28th February 2025.

The following is a list of our guests on this episode:

· Ewan O’Mahony, a final-year undergraduate reading law at Queen’s College and Per Incuriam Editor-in-Chief 2024-2025;

· Ben Mays, a final-year undergraduate reading law at Trinity College;

· Qinglan Du, a final-year undergraduate reading law at Christ’s College; and

· Brendan Mark, a second-year undergraduate reading law at Magdalene College.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this episode. Special thanks to Daniel Bates, Legal Research Training and Communications Specialist at the Cambridge Law Faculty, for his technical support and assistance in audio editing and production. Also special thanks to Per Incuriam deputy editor, Chloe Levieux, and Jessica Wong, CULS’s Publicity Freshers’ Representative for 2024-2025, who helped us analyse what questions our members had around the topics in this episode.

Welcome to CULSCAST 🎙️ the new Podcast from the Cambridge University Law Society, one of the world’s oldest and largest student-run societies, founded in 1901.

Our Publicity team 📢 is very pleased to be debuting this new initiative, our ‘CULSCAST Conversations’ series, which aims to bring the Cambridge law community closer together through conversation. In addition to posting new content through our ‘CULSCAST Conversations’ and ‘Speakers Select’ series, we have made a collection of 2012-2023 CULS lectures and debates from our archives easily accessible. This collection covers a myriad of highly relevant discussion by leading academics and practitioners. For example: Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Rwanda policy; Information Law in the Digital Revolution; Life at the Bar; and Litigating International Law.

Our Publicity team also runs CULS's socials. Give us a follow to get regular updates on the wonderful CULS events happening throughout term!

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To find out more about CULS or become a CULS member, visit our ⁠⁠