Nicholas Moss JP offered his impressions of what it is like to be inspected; and some thoughts about inspection based on that experience.
“Yours is an independence to check, verify and report. In a judicial context it is the independence to test evidence, to acquit the innocent and convict the guilty and to decide on sentence - according to law without fear or favour, affection or ill will.
“Thus, different, but also, to a degree, comparable. That is because both are based on an equally fundamental requirement: that of fairness, expressed in judicial terms as doing right to all manner of people. And that is something which of which we should never lose sight, whatever the role.”
