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... Justice Simon Brown, was a public lawyer with years of experience of fighting the battles of individual versus state both at the Bar and on the bench. That was the process by which this year the name of Nicolas Bratza QC was put forward to become Britain's first full-time judge at the European Court of Human Rights, which sits in Strasbourg under the aegis of the Council of Europe. By contrast, docket two: the procedure by which Lord Justice Millett and Lord Justice Hobhouse emerged to become the newest of Britain's 12 law lords, our supreme court. For them, no advertisement, no CVs, no interviews and no selection panel. Instead, 'soundings', secret chats among other senior judges - the other law lords, the Master of the Rolls (Lord Woolf) and the Lord Chief Justice (Lord Bingham). The Lord Chancellor recommended the appointments to the Prime Minister, who put the names ...