Lord Neuberger criticises fellow judge for appearing on MasterChef One of them, the Appeal Court judge Lord Justice Stanley Burnton, said of the starter: "The fish was beautifully cooked, not overdone so all in all very good. My only complaint was it was too big. He then ruled against the crème brûlée dessert, saying: "Meant to be passion fruit and mango. I didn't detect the mango and there wasn't enough passion. Mr Justice Langstaff, head of the Employment Appeals Tribunal, added: "The pudding was a big ask. They didn't quite pull it off but hey, who cares, the taste was good. I ate it all. In his presidential address to the Holdsworth Club, the University of Birmingham's Student Law Society, Lord Neuberger concluded that judges should "think carefully" about the impact of what they say when not sitting on the bench. Judges should not seek publicity for its own sake, or use their office as a springboard for causes (however worthy). There are rather a lot of judicial speeches being made at the moment. I wonder whether we are not devaluing the coinage, or letting the judicial mask slip. But he admitted: "In the light of the fact that I may be characterised as a serial offender, perhaps the less I say about that the better." The Master of the Rolls also warned against politicians criticising judges, as has happened recently in a series of human rights cases where Government policy has been thwarted. Lord Neuberger, whose sister-in-law is the rabbi Baroness Neuberger, said: "It is quite inappropriate for politicians publicly to criticise decisions of judges or, even worse, judges themselves in connection with the performance of their judicial function. If they slang each other off in public, members of the judiciary and members of the other two branches of government will undermine each other, and, inevitably, the constitution of which they are all a fundamental part, and on which democracy, the rule of law, and our whole society rests.