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Respect for the judiciary and for the decisions they take is intrinsic to the provision of a properly functioning system of justice, and yet we have reached a point where our judiciary are now daily regarded with disrespect and contempt. It is not merely worry about the age old phenomenon of 'Judgitis disease' ; it has progressed far beyond that. Judgitis was about arrogance and pre-judgement. We are now at a point where the competence of the Court of Appeal is properly being brought seriously into question, and in particular the ability to adequately foresee the consequences of ill conceived decisions.