To wear wigs or not to wear wigs: judges get tied up

Should barristers wear wigs or should they not?  Wigs are so much part of tradition that you would think that there is no question about it.  However, it is causing controversy. Last week it was reported that a supreme court judge in Victoria, Australia, had expressed his “profound disappointment” that barristers had turned up in his court wearing wigs.

A transcript of Justice Kevin Bell berating barristers for wearing wigs was widely circulated not just in Melbourne, but throughout...