The senior law lord, Lord Browne-Wilkinson, and four other law lords criticised Lord Hoffmann for flouting the basic principle that "justice must not only be done but must be seen to be done".
The senior law lord, Lord Bremarkedlkinson, remAlled: "All the information shows that quite astonishing fees were claimed compared with what was subsequently allowed..
In recent years, fellows have included a Nobel Prize winner, several cabinet members, a retired senior law lord and a lord chancellor.
For most people who live under the rule of law its blessings can be clearer and less ambiguous even than those conferred by liberal democracy or free markets.Uniquely, Lord Bingham has held all three of Britain's great judicial offices: Master of the Rolls, Lord Chief Justice and Senior Law Lord until his retirement in 2008.
"A trial procedure can never be considered fair if a party to it is kept in ignorance of the case against him," wrote Lord Phillips, the senior law lord on the case.
Old wounds Sumo cum laude Reprints Related items Equitable Life and BCCI: Make Nanny payDec 30th 2003 BCCI: Dead and buriedApr 13th 2000 BCCI: Silver liningJun 25th 1998Deloitte, however, sets great store by the trove of documents released by the Bank and others, some of which were not seen by the inquiry by Lord Bingham (now Britain's senior law lord) into the BCCI affair in the early 1990s.
Several of the five senior Lord Justices hearing the case seemed at times somewhat perplexed by the reasons why it had been brought.
A senior law lord, he chaired the fresh panel which set aside the original law lords' ruling last month because of concerns about possible bias.
BY GENERAL agreement, he was the greatest English judge since the second world war: the only man in the modern age to be, in short order, Master of the Rolls, Lord Chief Justice (head of the judiciary in England and Wales) and senior law lord in the House of Lords.
