At any other time, one suspects that Mr Justice Laddie’s decision to quit the High Court and join his old chums at Willoughby & Partners would have amounted to a minor revolution for the judiciary.By stepping down early and returning to private practice, Laddie has broken with the age-old convention that once a judge, always a judge.
However, in the context of the current whirlwind of reform sweeping through the bench Laddie’s move has, at the most, caused a minor squall within the Inns of Court.
