Good thing to, that they are being given a major pay rise. The reason judges are so well paid is to make them mostly incorruptible and that is one of the most important elements of our democracy and why the corrupt countries and people invest their ill gotten gains in the UK.
The opposite of this is Ukraine where there totally justice system is based of the size of your bribe. If you are very rich you are effectively above the law as you can buy off everything: murder, rape, theft (including major businesses), driving offences including killing people etc., etc. What cosy Westerners don't realise is what that really means in what you take for granted, like having money in a bank account. A bank employee will help the mafia take it, either through 'bank charges' or indirect theft for their payoff, which is why Ukrainians don't keep money in banks.
The global MOB boss of bosses is Ukrainian Semion Mogilevich who runs the Russian mafia, Ukrainian Mafia and now the US mafia. For them it is always about the money and they will take every $ they can from everybody they can with impunity where they own/payoff judges, politicians etc. FBI untouchable Robert Mueller III took down the Teflon Don and now he is working on the biggest and most important case of his career, where the Trump clan and compromised GOP congressmen and senators are just the tip of the iceberg of US and global elites corruption. If you think globalization biggest success was cheap mass produced goods for everyone, it wasn't. For the mafia it was their globalization of:
1. Drugs.
2. People trafficking.
3. Money laundering.
4. Counterfeit goods.
5. Hacking, malware, botnets and fraud.
6. Protection rackets.
7. Front 'legit' businesses.
8. Investing in Tech companies, main stream media, PR fronts and lobbying companies to create the narrative to their advantage.
9. Corrupting business owners, financial company employees, law enforcement, judges, lawyers, accountants, journalists and most important of all politicians.
And turning countries like Russia into mafia states and if they win in the US the same will apply to them, which will end Western civilization as we know it.