Ye shall be judged
Teachers and other public servants, have the benefit of retiring on a pension of half their salary after a mere 40 years’ service, but judges are expected to wait a full 20 years before they enjoy that perk. Their stoicism has been remarkable but now they want more recognition and reward for “what they do”.
Sometimes what they do is so poor, so inept and so untenable that frequent appeals to the UK Supreme Court are required. There, through a process of forensic rectification, the judgements of Scotland’s highest courts are overturned and justice, at last, is seen to be done.
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Hide AdInformed bystanders might conclude that if plumbers, builders, electricians, surveyors, teachers, bus drivers and lollipop ladies got it wrong as regularly as some of Scotland’s judges, they would be sacked. As yet, no record has been found of a judge in pursuit of jobseekers’ allowance.
Thomas Crooks
Dundas Street
Edinburgh