NLJ this week: Interviewing Mrs Justice Cockerill, head of the Commercial Court

Cockerill J describes the huge diversity of the role: the obstacles and triumphs, highs and lows (bugbears include inaccurate timing estimates) of her ‘endlessly fascinating’ job. Her two-year tenure will have encompassed the challenges of lockdown and issues of the impact of sanctions (Russian litigants are among the biggest users of the court).

She gives her opinion on what makes a good judge, on tackling increasing workloads and on how to promote social mobility, and lots more.