The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, spent a day undercover this summer on a community punishment scheme near Milton Keynes, it has emerged. His cover was that he was a solicitor at a shipping firm who had been convicted of driving with excess alcohol and sentenced to 150 hours' unpaid work and 18 months' disqualification. Of his experience, Lord Phillips said: 'Community work is much less expensive to provide than prison places, and it must make sense to provide the resources needed to fund the provision of this alternative to custody.'