Similarities and Differences: Judiciary Comparison

Question 1

Similarities in History of Supreme Courts

Answer 1

-Both intended to provide an independent judiciary that was fully separate from the two other branches of government

Question 2

UK History of Supreme Court

Answer 2

-Set up through an Act of Parliament (Constitutional Reform Act 2005)
-Establishment of a new supreme court was part of a new programme to reform and modernize the judiciary and separate it from parliament.
-A young institution

Question 3

US History of Supreme Court

Answer 3

-Entrenched in the US Constitution and sat for the first time in 1790.
-An old institution.