Judges and professors – Ships passing in the night?
Speech by Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, Master of the Rolls
14/08/2012
" For a long time the relationship between judges and academics in England and Wales (which, for convenience and out of no disrespect for the Welsh, I shall refer to as ‘England’) was that of ships passing in the night; ships that merely occasionally spoke to each other, with distant voices, before returning to silence."