That’s one down and – in all probability – one to go. Lord Goldsmith having tendered his resignation as Attorney General last Friday (22 June), the consensus is that the holder of that other Cabinet-level Government legal post – Lord Chancellor and Minister of Justice Lord Falconer – will also soon be sailing off into the sunset. In Falconer’s case, however, it would appear that he is at least waiting around to see whether or not he figures in the plans of incoming prime minister Gordon Brown.
Goldsmith and Falconer both hailed from the same set of chambers, Fountain Court, and everyone at the Bar agrees their departures dealt the chambers a considerable blow.
