The judiciary has this week come under renewed criticism for failing to police its own after it emerged one of the UK’s most senior judges has been working behind the scenes despite facing a court battle of his own over allegations of indecent exposure.
Lord Justice Richards, an experienced Court of Appeal judge, was arrested in January after allegedly exposing himself to a female passenger on a train in southwest London. He was released on bail and later charged but the scandal had already catapulted him into the national press.
