Right first time

"This is my third address to the Council's Annual Conference as Shadow Senior President Designate. It is exciting, but a little daunting, that this time I may be about to emerge from the shadows. The role of Senior President may become a statutory reality, if as we hope the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Bill is in the Government s legislative programme to be announced tomorrow. We will need to be ready to respond. For a moment but I suspect only a brief moment -Tribunals will be centre-stage on the political scene. We have a unique opportunity to take part in the process of creating the legal machinery needed to give reality to the bold aspirations of the Leggatt report and the White Paper..."