Sir, – Several aspects of their lordships’ dissent baffle me.
What evidence exists to prove that reputational damage would be suffered by the judiciary? Would the reputational damage be greater than that incurred by the refusal of some of their number to take voluntary pay cuts? Given the judges’ evident conflict of interest in deciding the matter, who is better placed than the Irish people, exercising their democratic right, with their customary good sense? – Yours, etc,