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The Water Cooler

* It must be champagne corks popping all round down at the Royal Courts of Justice. Sir Igor Judge has received his life peerage after all (see Watercooler August 28) because Downing Street has specially bestowed one, even though it no longer comes automatically with the job. So he can sit among the law lords or even speak in the House of Lords, in theory (although the latter is unlikely), at least until the Supreme Court is set up next year and the law lords are disentangled from the Upper House entirely. Lord Justice May was also announced as the new President of the Queen's Bench Division from October 1 - taking over from Sir Igor - and Mr Justice Etherton, chairman of the Law Commission, moves up to the Court of Appeal - bringing the number of appeal judges to 38.

Full post as published by International and UK Law on September 05, 2008 (boomark / email).