The Estrada/Juffali divorce will confirm London's reputation as the divorce capital of the world, where ex-wives are confident of winning more generous settlements and relatively fast justice for those who can afford the large legal fees.
Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, has recently published proposals to extend the small claims procedure, raising the limit for cases from £3,000 to £5,000.Encouraging access to cheap and relatively quick justice makes sense.
What we need now — what our nation deserves now — is the appointment of a relatively moderate justice, like Garland or Souter, whose presence on the court will enable it to retain its identity as a court rather than as a partisan political actor.
In his first term, Obama has appointed Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, two relatively liberal justices.
Just last month, even as it limited another part of the law, three relatively conservative justices in the majority acknowledged that more work was needed to ensure equal access at the polls.
Relatively few justices have been appointed from among members of Congress.
The government has tried to assuage opponents by keeping the role of steering the bill through parliament in the hands of the relatively liberal former justice secretary Ken Clarke, rather than his successor, Chris Grayling.
This result shows that and how, given certain relatively general conditions, justice as we have defined it can arise dynamically.
This helps explain, for example, Germany's aversion to war and its relatively lenient criminal-justice system.
Protection may be relatively light because justices have worked to preserve their freedom of movement, and the Supreme Court has a lucky history — its members have not met with serious violence.
