"My Lords, since the populist image of the geriatric judge, out of touch with the real world, is now reflected in the statutory presumption of judicial incompetence at the age of 75, this is the last time I shall speak judicially in your Lordships' House. I am happy that the occasion is one when I can agree with your Lordships still in the prime of judicial life who demonstrate so convincingly that common sense and the common law here go hand in hand."
This was per Lord Bridge of Harwich in Ruxley Electronics & Construction Ltd v Forsyth [1995] 3 All ER 268 (HL).
So I read this and started reading about what the statutes say about judicial incompetence and also life peerages. As it turns out, if I ever got to the House of Lords (which will never happen as it's now called the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (ew)), I would be a Baroness of ...Mission Bay.
