The present time is an unusual one for the judiciary. The effect of the reduction of the retirement age for judges to 70 is that a substantial number of judges are coming up to retirement. Of particular interest to this audience is the fact that Eady J will reach statutory retirement age in a few months and I will do so in 2 years time. This information, and the other information I shall mention in this talk is publicly available on the judiciary website:A HTML version of this speech is not available click here or view below the pdf version :Speech