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I'd like to know from which part of Wales the litigants and their lawyers will be coming. I went to a meeting of the Admin. Court Users group when the idea of the Admin. Court sitting in Cardiff was just being mooted. There was a solicitor from Colwyn Bay there - he happened to have a two-day case - and he told the assembled high-ups that for him a case in London meant a long day but a case in Cardiff meant two days travelling and a day in court, and that if they really wanted to make life easier for lawyers in North Wales without being unfair to those from London the court should sit in Manchester.

Since then I have had a long case involving me and my counsel from London and litigants and their lawyers from North Wales where the easiest places for us all to reach were Chester or Liverpool - but the case had to be listed in Wrexham because England was "off circuit". I mean no disrespect to Wrexham when I say that the thought of a week there was dispiriting. Mercifully it settled.

The point I am making is that there is or should be no magic about a place being on one side or the other of the Welsh boundary.