Igor Judge

Former lord chief justice dies at 82

I was deeply saddened to hear that Lord Judge died on Tuesday at the age of 82. He was lord chief justice of England and Wales from 2008 to 2013.

He last wrote to me on 4 October, thanking me for a piece I had written here about the swearing-in of his successor Lady Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill. “I am sorry that I was not well enough to be present,” he sai…