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The Water Cooler

* After 28 years as a judge, Lord Bingham of Cornhill has sat on his last case — an appeal by a Lebanese woman asylum-seeker against deportation (Lebanese woman appeals deportation order to keep her son). Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, this week kicked off what will no doubt be a long round of parties with a reception at Lancaster House for the retiring senior law lord. Next week the law lords, Privy Council and judicial office staff will host their own do. Lawyers and judges fall over themselves with superlatives for Bingham, who will clearly be sorely missed. He has been an “outstanding” law lord, “the judge of his generation”, etc, etc. Brendan Keith, head of the judicial office, said: “We’ve very much enjoyed working with him and will greatly miss him.”

Full post as published by International and UK Law on July 23, 2008 (boomark / email).