(1) Sumption's letter implies that Neuberger did not believe that Witness B was acting alone and that the judge believed that Witness B's conduct was "characteristic of the service as a whole".
(2) The 15-page speech on "the limits of law" was delivered by Sumption – once one of Britain's highest-earning barristers – at the 27th Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, last week.
(3) In Mr Sumption's summary, a senior judge had initially found that there was such a "culture of suppression" within MI5 that it undermined any government assurances on its behalf.
(4) Sumption realised early on that the key to the case was character, and convincing the judge Berezovsky was a wrong 'un.
(5) This debate cannot be resolved here, but possibility of positive discrimination in the appointments process does, as Sumption suggests, deserve an airing, even if (and this is by no means clear) we – like Sumption – end up rejecting it.
(6) But Sumption failed to identify one of the prime causal factors: institutional sexism.
(7) Jonathan Sumption’s views exemplify perfectly what is wrong with the way women in the legal profession are viewed by those in the highest echelons of power.
(8) 11.14am BST Lord Sumption also issued an additional judgment.
(9) Concluding his speech, Sumption commented: "I am not going to suggest that the fabric of society will break down because judges, whether sitting in London, Strasbourg, Washington or anywhere else, make law for which there is no democratic mandate.
(10) Excepting the supreme court justice Lord Sumption, who has deep reservations about the extension of the judge-made law which flows from the extension of judicial review as well as from human rights law, this autumn has seen what amounts to a judicial conversation about the relationship between Strasbourg and the UK courts, the conclusion of which is that the fault lies less with Europe or the Human Rights Act than with our judges themselves.
(11) Lord Sumption looks around at the higher reaches of the bar and believes there are not enough women at the top of the profession who are up to the job of being a senior judge.
(12) One of the judges, Lord Sumption, said Catt regularly took part in demonstrations against the Brighton arms factory, owned by the manufacturer EDO MBM, which police had said were “amongst the most violent in the UK”.
(13) Gideon Sumption of Stacks Property Search, a buying agency, said: "Some people who perhaps retired in their mid- to late-50s and whose children had left home downsized to a smaller house.
(14) In his judgment on the Nicklinson case, Lord Sumption argued that the law is considerably more humane and flexible than many of those who argue for reform appear to recognise.
(15) How much money was Jonathan Sumption QC paid to represent Tony Blair at the Hutton inquiry?
(16) The court was effectively about to rule, Mr Sumption revealed, that MI5 had treated basic rights with contempt and had lied to the parliamentary watchdog which provides its only oversight.
(17) Delivering the Kuttan Menon memorial lecture, Hale agreed with many of the conclusions reached on improving judicial diversity by another supreme court justice, Lord Sumption, last year.
(18) In a sustained broadside, Lord Sumption, a UK supreme court justice, raised fundamental questions about the court – which has issued landmark but controversial judgements against the UK on the use of internment without trial in Northern Ireland and on the right of prisoners to vote.
(19) Adopting an unfashionable argument, Sumption also asserted that politicians are far better than judges at reaching compromises over competing interests.
(20) Since losing in the high court, David Millband has instructed one of the country's most expensive advocates, Jonathan Sumption QC, to represent his position.
Syllogism
Definition:
(n.) The regular logical form of every argument, consisting of three propositions, of which the first two are called the premises, and the last, the conclusion. The conclusion necessarily follows from the premises; so that, if these are true, the conclusion must be true, and the argument amounts to demonstration
Example Sentences:
(1) There is no valid practical syllogism, having true premises, whose conclusion is that research with recombinant DNA should be stopped.
(2) If not, he has fallen into that GCSE syllogism: this book is about women; women are feminists; ergo this book is about feminism.
(3) 20 syllogisms were administered, 10 in English and 10 in Spanish, and accuracy of and strategy for solution were examined.
(4) Subjects completed the reasoning measure of 48 syllogisms, and the perceptual measure involving identification of positive, negative, or neutral stimulus words presented tachistoscopically.
(5) They’re laugh lines without thought, unlinked by a program or even syllogism.
(6) "It is in my view a much better vehicle for philosophy than syllogisms and logical constructs," she says.
(7) The wide applicability of reasoning by analogy and by syllogism as complementary strategies is illustrated through their use in a critical review of the editorial page of a daily newspaper, and in linking content material in several domains.
(8) He examines a model syllogism of a medical decision that requires lay involvement, and explores other individual and social roles that laypersons play at all levels of medical decision making Brief summaries of his colleagues' articles conclude the essay.
(9) The sameness in the strategy for forming a generalization from experience is called "reasoning by analogy," while the sameness in the strategy for applying generalizations is described by the syllogism (logical reasoning).
(10) The testimony of most expert witnesses is reducible to a syllogism: The expert derives a relevant opinion (the conclusion) by applying a general theory or technique (the major premise) to the specific facts of the case (the minor premise).
(11) Merkel may be the one European leader who from to time has actually faced Germans and Europeans with the devastating syllogism that Europe has 7% of the world's people, who possess 25% of the world's wealth and award themselves 50% of the world's social spending – with the clear (and surely correct) implication that a globalised economy and the rise of China make this hard to sustain without reform.
(12) Experiments 1 and 2 compared the predictions of these two theories by examining whether the interaction would disappear if only determinate syllogisms were used.
(13) In Experiment 2, for example, subjects were given logical syllogisms during acquisition.
(14) Differences by grade were not significant except a higher proportion of theoretical explanations were given by children in Grade 5 for syllogisms in Spanish.
(15) The selective scrutiny account claims that people focus on the conclusion and only engage in logical processing if this is found to be unbelievable; while the misinterpreted necessity account claims that subjects misunderstand what is meant by logical necessity and respond on the basis of believability when indeterminate syllogisms are presented.
(16) And, as the rest of the politician’s syllogism has it, ruling out a coalition with the SNP was something; therefore, Ed Miliband had to say that .
(17) In experiments 1 and 2 subjects drew their own conclusions from syllogisms that suggested believable or unbelievable ones.