Ranjan Gogoi, former Chief Justice of India, recently launched his autobiography, titled Justice for the Judge. It was a great affair, attended by a lot of powerful people.

One of Mr Gogoi’s comments around the launch was with regard to an allegation of sexual harassment made by one of his junior employees. At the time Mr Gogoi had famously been part of the bench that heard the case suo moto and exonerated him, which is to say as part of the bench, he had exonerated himself. Any similarity to the Lewis Carroll poem ‘I’ll be judge, I’ll be jury,’ said cunning old Fury: ‘I’ll try the whole cause, and condemn you to death,’ purely coincidental of course.