THE duty of a judge is to pass fair judgment. A judge can invoke the name of God in court and only to God is he responsible for his act. A judge cannot be censured for his decisions. A misjudgment by a judge may be corrected only by another judge of a higher court in a no less dignified judicial proceeding. So noble is the duty of a judge!

So why have so many people recently cursed at judges? In August 1997 a plaintiff flung a shoe at a ju