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Judge David Goodin is retiring
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A Suffolk judge, who as a young man was “determined under no circumstances “ to go into the law, is hanging up his wig and gown after more than 40 years in the legal profession.
Although several family friends and his godfather had followed a career in the law, it was only when former Ipswich Crown Court resident judge David Goodin found himself “incompetently” running an advice centre in South London without any legal training that he decided to go to law school.
Judge David Goodin was the Resident Judge at Ipswich Crown Court for several years