reasonable chastisement

Sometime last year, I was told off for smoking on the steps outside Bentham house by this rather…large man.

I didn’t think much of it, except that the guy was an idiot and I bit my tongue from telling him off.

Today I saw him again and immediately went off the steps onto the pavement, which isn’t property of Bentham.

And I realised the man was Lord Woolf, former Master of the Rolls and Lord Chief Justice, the most successful judge in the UK since Lord Bingham.

Blehz.