Your news item 'New era for judges' alarms me. You ascribe to the new Judicial Appointments Commission responsibility for running 'competitions for judicial appointments' (see [2006] Gazette, 6 April, 4).

Competitions? Will the questions be published? Will there be a tie-break question? Something along the lines of 'Complete in no more than 15 words the following sentence - I am the best person to be a judge because... '?


Please tell me there's a mistake here somewhere. Or have the lunatics finally taken over the asylum?


David Jones, Cardiff