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Doesn't the code of practice for the legal profession say the they should not bring the administration of justice into disrepute? And didn't Lord Denning say something similar when he said that it would be better for the occasional innocent to be hanged than the administration of justice be brought into disrepute.

I've come across several judges that have not been completely honest, that's understating the matter; and, on two occasions when appealing it was that Lord Munby character who failed to hold the lower court to account. The appeal judgment was badly reasoned, as it manoeuvred its way around the truth.

The Court of Appeal can be incestuous, each judge looks after the others, especially if the case is not high profile.

In the 1706 Act of Settlement Parliament recognised that it was replacing the power of the King and passing it to the judges. Yet, in the intervening years somehow the term "independence of the judiciary" been born and has come to mean that they only answer to themselves. Parliament should ask the judiciary to explain themselves if an MP believes that the reasoning of a case brought by a constituent is manifestly flawed. Our judges are the only part of our constitution that is allowed to judge themselves. The Executive are kept an eye on by both Parliament and the judges, and Parliament is similarly kept in check with the added scrutiny from the people at election time.

It's about time the judges where held to account. They will not lose their independence, but they will be more likely to get it right, and less likely to club together to preserve their untouchability if MP's did their job as laid down in the Act of Settlement.