Who holds judiciary to account when they get it wrong?

THE CASUAL ignorance of the remark was jaw-droppingly offensive; the so-called apology, if anything, even more damning — and the fact both were uttered by a judge was deeply worrying.

Judge Mary Devins’s outrageous slur on Polish immigrants once again begs the question: How do these people get selected to judge the rest of us?

Devins was hearing the case of a trainee plumber who called a nightclub bouncer a “fat Polish fucker” — the fact the bouncer in question was Irish shows the level of intelligence of the kind of people who bandy about such sweepingly ignorant remarks.