My friend Jeremy Connor, who has died aged 87, was a circuit judge in London from 1996 to 2004, having spent his earlier career as a barrister and then as a stipendiary magistrate.
Aside from his work directly inside courts, Jeremy was also, for many years, chair of two legal bodies – the Inner London Youth Courts, which oversees best practice in youth courts and examines sentencing data, and the Inner London and City of London Probation Committee, a statutory body in charge of probation services.
