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I'm a layman. I wouldn't have believed a judge would do this, or that it would not meet with censure. Anyone who behaved like that would have some personality issue that ought to disqualify from a role as judge. It seems unlikely that they wouldn't have shown that tendency in their previous professional life and it ought to be a formal bar to appointment to the bench. Judges ought to be subject to being struck off for such behaviour; that wouldn't interfere with the necessary immunity re their judicial decisions.
I don't understand the fear for your career if you stood up and gave better than you got, but with calm politeness, forestalling any attempt at further abuse, telling him (probably) that he was incapable of continuing to act in the case and that you would make an immediate complaint to the JCO, pointing out that the Press would jump at this opportunity to illustrate how judges are so self-important - too big for even their fulsome 18th century wigs, which they ludicrously hang onto as giving them both dignity and a degree of unrecognisability.