A couple of times each year a judgment comes across my desk in which what was intended to be a reference to “the Minister” turns out, on closer inspection, to be a reference to “the Minster”. The judge didn’t pick it up. Whoever typed the judgment (if it wasn’t the judge) didn’t pick it up.… Continue reading

According to Oscar Wilde, there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. Oscar Wilde’s metrics are different from mine. Imagine that you were a senior officer at an important public institution, and that a significant part of your job involved making sure that… Continue reading