Lord Etherton obituary
Former master of the rolls, head of the civil judiciary in England and Wales, who was the first openly gay senior judgeWhen the Daily Mail damned three senior judges as “enemies of the people” for their Brexit case judgment in 2016, it rubbed a little extra prejudice into the insult for Terence Etherton.The newly appointed master of the rolls, head of the civil judiciary in England and Wales, was initially derided by the paper’s online edition as an “openly gay ex-Olympic
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