Delegation from the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom visits the Federal Constitutional Court

Press Release No. 40/2023 of 06 April 2023

From 3 to 5 April 2023, a delegation from the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, headed by its President, Robert John Reed, The Right Hon The Lord Reed of Allermuir, visited the Federal Constitutional Court. The guests were received by President Prof. Dr. Stephan Harbarth, Vice-President Prof. Dr. Doris König and other members of the Court. The topics discussed in the working sessions included legal questions arising in the contexts of climate change, assisted suicide, the relationship between the European Convention on Human Rights and national law, and the digitalisation of justice.

Source: © Bundesverfassungsgericht │Joe Miletzki

Front row (left to right): The Right Hon Lord David Lloyd-Jones (Justice), President of the Federal Constitutional Court Prof. Dr. Stephan Harbarth, LL.M. (Yale), The Right Hon The Lord Robert John Reed of Allermuir (President of the Supreme Court), Vice-President of the Federal Constitutional Court Prof. Dr. Doris König, The Right Hon Lord David James Tyson Kitchin (Justice), Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court Dr. Yvonne Ott. 

Back row (left to right): Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court Prof. Dr. Martin Eifert, LL.M. (Berkeley), Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court Thomas Offenloch, Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court Dr. Josef Christ, The Right Hon Lord George Andrew Midsomer Leggatt (Justice), Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court Prof. Dr. Ines Härtel, Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court Prof. Dr. Henning Radtke, Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court Prof. Dr. Heinrich Amadeus Wolff.