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Martin M, I didn't say I didn't like Lord D; from what I saw of him on TV, he seemed a pleasant chap. What I learned of his 'stepping out of line' seemed to me (non-lawyer) a justifiable finger-wagging at what seems to me the unjustifiable belief of judges that 'Justice' is what they say it is - when it is actually a societal consensus, like public morality - as if they had some qualification in it as they do in Law. But I am worried that any lawyer would defend his choice of condemning the B Six rather the allowing the roaring heavens to fall upon the organs of State, whose failings he well knew but declared to be unbelievable. If the heavens had been allowed to fall in and wipe out a generation of politicians and those who fawned upon them, we might have a less unconscionable lot now, inc. a Lord Chancellor who appears to agree with the mob that there should be no legal limit on what government can do.