A magistrate who, during the sentencing of two 16 year-old boys, said that “Normal people would consider you absolute scum” has been relieved of his duties as chairman of the bench. The comment by Mr Austin Molloy was in response to the boys’ criminal acts of writing racist and sexually abusive words in prayer books [...]
The Office for Judicial Complaints has published its annual report for 2007 -2008 and its key features include: * From April 2007 – March 2008, 1,437 complaints against judicial office holders were made. * 878 of those complaints related to the mainstream judiciary (down from 948 last year) * 48 of those complaints related to [...]
