From the National Secular Society website

Two members of the National Secular Society have written to the Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling, asking that he end the Anglican Church service in Westminster Abbey that marks the opening of the judicial year on 1 October.

The church service — complete with the judges wearing wigs and gowns and gilt regalia processing into the Abbey — is seen by Peter Fisher, a long-serving Justice Ministry official and John Butcher, once a parliamentary candidate for the Tories and now a Councillor in Surrey, as an inappropriate reinforcement of the link between the Church and the state.

In their letter to the Justice Minister they say that in an increasingly secular and multi-faith society it is wrong for judges to be seen paying homage to one denomination, the Church of England.
The letter says that they fear the church service risks prejudicing decision on religious matters and asks that the names of judges attending the Abbey since 2007 to be published. The two say they have no objection to judges attending services in a private capacity.

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