Three UK judges removed and one resigns over viewing pornography

[oggbashan]

Three [UK] judges have been removed and a fourth has resigned following an investigation into an allegation that they viewed pornographic material on office computers.

http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015...ourth-resigns-for-viewing-pornography-at-work

Note that despite some alarm by writers and producers of pornography/erotica in the UK, this is about using public-funded computers AT WORK to view the material. None of the material was illegal nor about underage sex. The problem was that they were looking at it while they were being paid by the state.

The judges showed a lack of judgement.

 

[sr71plt]

But . . . but . . . how are they going to know it when they see it for rulings in court if they don't do their research?

 

[oggbashan]

But . . . but . . . how are they going to know it when they see it for rulings in court if they don't do their research?

They have to have it explained to them.

The most famous quote from the 1960 trial of D H Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover:

The prosecution was ridiculed for being out of touch with changing social norms when the chief prosecutor, Mervyn Griffith-Jones, asked if it were the kind of book "you would wish your wife or servants to read".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Chatterley's_Lover

 

[49greg]

They have to have it explained to them.

The most famous quote from the 1960 trial of D H Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover:

The prosecution was ridiculed for being out of touch with changing social norms when the chief prosecutor, Mervyn Griffith-Jones, asked if it were the kind of book "you would wish your wife or servants to read".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Chatterley's_Lover

How times have changed, although there are still some, hopefully fewer of them now, who still think that way - on both sides of the pond.

 

[sr71plt]

The most amusing part of that quote was that in those days the judge would be bonking the maid.

 

[Bramblethorn]

The most amusing part of that quote was that in those days the judge would be bonking the maid.

Or worse. I can't find the guy's name just now, but one British judge was notorious among his clerks for needing a change of robes after sentencing someone to death :-/

(Google keeps finding me articles about a judge named Richard Boner, which is not quite the judicial erection I was looking for.)

 

[Kim_vegas]

Poor people!

 

[Zeb_Carter]

It the Crazy Years.