For some strange reason this brings back memories of a cartoon with one prisoner saying to another "I think you might have got a smaller sentence if you hadn't said 'Who's the old spaniel?'"
Yes indeed, congratulations again.
One does wonder, however whether our now Flying Judge's promotion and therefore removal from the defence benches was in some way influenced by the Chaps who were so fed up of loosing to him!
I do not wish however such a comment to detract from his fully deserved promotion.