[1][2] In 2005 Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London, refused to apologize for saying to an Evening Standard reporter "you might be Jewish, but actually you are just like a concentration camp guard".
In 2006 Collins reversed the General Medical Council verdict to strike off Professor Sir Roy Meadow.
The satirical magazine Private Eye described his ruling as:- " a victory for commonsense if you ignore the evidence, the context, Sir Roy’s peculiar track record, the statistics, paediatrics, genetics and the presumption of innocence."
Collins saw no conflict and not only found in favour of Meadow but ruled to limit the power the GMC held over expert witnesses.
Objectors had argued that the development was unnecessary, as there was already a good local supply of vacant houses, and that it endangered Newmarket's future as the centre of British horseracing.
[10] He ordered the council and Lord Derby, who had been joined as a party, to pay 90 per cent of the other side's costs and also refused them leave to appeal.