As a prominent QC once said to me (and others in a presentation) :
"Do not confuse the Law with Justice. It is a game played between skilled professionals, each with their own agenda which generally do not coincide, where those who were actually involved merely are spectators".
He also made the point that where the various participants may include more than one department of government (eg the Min of Justice appointing/promoting judges, and another Ministry being part of the story) that the permanent secretaries of the two ministries are likely longstanding chums and have probably sewn up between them what is best from the perspective of the government, how their own departments are seen within it, and what impact any adverse press comment coming from the case might have on them.
An upside here is the Lady Judge is very unlikely to be a mason.
Last edited by WHBM; 19th Feb 2018 at 00:47.