I AM NOT, AND HAVE NEVER been, a member of the Garrick Club. I make the declaration in case I ever decide to apply for a judicial appointment since, according to a recent open letter by a group of lawyers, membership of the men-only Garrick “is fundamentally incompatible with the core principles of justice, equality and fairness, particularly for senior members of the judiciary”.
Though this debatable assertion has no basis in law, at least four of the Garrick’s judicial members — Sir Keith Lindblom, Sir Nicholas Cusworth, Sir
