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Former top judge lambasts recent ministers in memoir

Written By Unknown on Wednesday, August 21, 2019 | 11:28 AM

Lord Dyson, former master of the rolls, highlights difficult relationship between judges and senior politicians

The former lord chancellor Chris Grayling “never believed access to social justice” was important while Liz Truss was a “disaster” in the same role, according to a highly revealing memoir by one of the country’s most senior, recently retired judges.

In his autobiography, Lord Dyson, formerly master of the rolls and a supreme court justice, records how he managed to “water down” government cuts to legal aid, regrets the downgrading of the justice secretary’s position and deplores the rise of antisemitism.

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