Sir Terence Etherton, the second most senior judge in England and Wales and head of civil justice, is to receive a peerage to mark his retirement as master of the rolls. He was the first openly gay judge appointed to the High Court.
But friends of Etherton, 69, were shocked at how unwell he appeared to be during a valedictory event last week. A former at…
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