The Government seems to have been doing its best to annoy the judiciary over the past few years. But the Whitehall wags hit a new high in wig-baiting last September with the gleeful announcement that they were considering bringing in night courts.
Effective at trying criminals or not, the plan would have the useful side-effect of rendering members of the judiciary too disoriented, knackered and grumpy to mount any effective opposition to its policies. The judiciary were not amused. “We were trying to think of other possibilities, such as sitting in the long summer vacation,” said one Bar insider gloomily.
