“I think they have appointed another uninspiring technocrat with no imagination – someone who is simply going to crunch things through.”
Such sentiments about newly appointed judges are not unusual, particularly among disillusioned barristers over a bottle or two of El Vino’s claret. But in this case, the comment comes from a sober, well-respected silk. And the judge in question? None other than the new Lord Chief Justice (LCJ) of England and Wales, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, heir to Lord Chief Justice Woolf, who retired on 30 September.
