DO JUDGES SYSTEMATICALLY FAVOR THE LEGAL PROFESSION?

Some of you will be asking “Is this some kind of trick question?” But Ben Barton writes: “Many legal outcomes can be explained, and future cases predicted, by asking a very simple question: is there a plausible result in this case that will significantly affect the interests of the legal profession (positively or negatively)? If so, the case will always be decided in the way that offers the best result for the legal profession.”

He also asks “whether our judiciary should be staffed by lawyer-judges at all.”