The Deputy President of the Supreme Court, Lord Hope, has requested a media blackout at his next public address to the legal profession at the Lighthouse in Glasgow this Friday.

Lord Hope will be delivering a seminar on the role of a Supreme Court in protecting the rights of the individual in a jurisdiction with no written constitution.

He has stipulated that no media attend the event after The Herald newspaper reported his address given at the Scottish Association for the Study of Offending in Dunblane last month.

At the event Lord Hope is claimed to have referred to Lord Rodger's observation of a 'corrosive anti-English sentiment' regarding referral of Scottish cases to the court.

The Head of Communications at the Supreme Court has claimed that Lord Hope was unaware any members of the media were in attendance, and that his remarks were “totally misquoted.”

The Sheriff Principal of Glasgow who is chairing the event has also been instructed to inform delegates that Lord Hope’s remarks are to remain confidential.

The comments attributed to Lord Hope were described as “insightful and courageous” by Solicitor of the Year Mike Dailly, who added that Scotland was fortunate to have a jurist of his “outstanding calibre”

2.15pm update
Lucy Adams, reporter at The Herald has said that she is willing to play the exact quotes and audio of Lord Hope's address to the Scottish Association for the Study of Offending available to anyone wanting to hear it, stating that he was "not misquoted one bit".

5.20pm Update

The Firm has received the following statement from Ben Wilson, the Deputy Head of Communications at the Supreme Court.

"Lord Hope has been asked to give some introductory remarks at a private seminar organised by the GBA, an invitation which he happily accepted. This is an educational event for legal professionals and such seminars are rarely open to the public or media."

"To clarify, Lord Hope does not feel his recent speech to the Scottish Association for the Study of Offending was 'totally misquoted', and the speech is freely available from our website for anyone to see that this is not the case.

"For the record, he does however feel one or two remarks were taken out of their context and given undue prominence in a way that overshadowed the wider speech's intended meaning."