High Court judges are supposed to be fastidious about where they go and who they meet. Senior members of the judiciary, such as the Lord Chief Justice, Baron Thomas, and the Master of the Rolls, Lord Dyson, need to ask some searching questions and they need to start asking them now. The anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta falls on June 15. Why, then, the need to hold the London celebration at the end of February, more than five months before the anniversary proper – but just weeks before the formal launch of the general election campaign?