THE OTHER DAY, a judge I hadn’t seen for ages took me to task over my book Enemies of the People? I had answered the question posed in my title by asserting that judges were just about the only friends we had. “We are nobody’s friends,” he insisted. “We’re independent.”
Well, yes. But what does independence mean in this context? That question was addressed recently by the lord chief justice of England and Wales in a major but little-reported lecture delivered at the Hebrew