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In 1962 Humphreys became a Commissioner at the Old Bailey.

He became an Additional Judge there in 1968 and served on the bench until his retirement in 1976.

Increasingly he became willing to court controversy by his judicial pronouncements ; in 1975 he passed a suspended jail sentence on a man convicted of two counts of rape.

The Lord Chancellor defended Humphreys in the face of a House of Commons motion to dismiss him, and he also received support from the National Association of Probation Officers.