The Lord Mayor’s Dinner for Judges: Mansion House, London

In his speech, Lord Phillips talks about new experiences aside from his recent role as Lord Chief Justice and formerly as Master of the Rolls:

For the previous eight years, three conducting the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Inquiry and five as Master of the Rolls, I had been out of contact with developments in the field of criminal law. Shortly after finishing the BSE Inquiry I was invited out to dinner and found myself sitting next to a delightful young woman. She was a farmer’s daughter and thus had a particular interest in the BSE saga. She then asked me “and what are you doing now?”
I said “I have gone back to judging”. She looked at me blankly for a moment and then said “Oh, you mean cattle at County Shows”.