The Independent: John Walsh: Tales of the city
“What is one to make of the behaviour of Sir Hugh Laddie, better known as Mr Justice Laddie…”
Posted Friday 24 June 2005
Where will it end? Ambition, ties and socks are all being left behind in the pursuit of fun
What is one to make of the behaviour of Sir Hugh Laddie, better known as Mr Justice Laddie, an awesomely distinguished, vertiginously eminent senior judge at the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice? He has done a runner. He has legged it. Bored with judicial protocol, enervated by the daily wrestling-match with arcane questions of copyright and “intellectual property” (his special subject), he has chucked it all in, to join a firm of solicitors as a consultant.