Joining in a debate on whether a Court of Appeal should be introduced to act as a filter between the High Court and the Supreme Court, the Labour party member said that the proposed new layer would play a crucial role. He said, according to the Independent: 'In recent years there has been a huge rise in the number of appeals but the size of the Supreme Court has remained the same. The result is a huge backlog of appeals before the Supreme Court, which are clogging up the system and creating unacceptable delays.'