The Government has announced that prospective judges will no longer have to declare if they are Freemasons.
The policy reversal was announced by Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, after a threat of legal action forced a review. He said that it would be “disproportionate” to continue with the practice.
The United Grand Lodge of England threatened legal [...]
The Office for Judicial Complaints has published its annual report for 2007 -2008 and its key features include:
* From April 2007 – March 2008, 1,437 complaints against judicial office holders were made.
* 878 of those complaints related to the mainstream judiciary (down from 948 last year)
* 48 of those complaints related to tribunal office [...]
