Lord Judge, brilliant Lord Chief Justice and unflinching cha

Lord Judge, who has died aged 82, was the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 2008 to 2013. Like Shakespeare’s Lord Chief Justice, Judge never did anything that “misbecame his place”. His copybook was so spotless that his fellow Lord of Appeal, Lord Dyson, when addressing the massed ranks of lawyers at Judge’s retirement gathering at the Royal Courts of Justice, was unable to drag up a single embarrassing tale about his colleague, and had to make do with praising his many good qualities

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