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Appeal Court orders judge to stand down

A High Court judge, Mr Justice Singer was ordered to step down from a divorce case for saying a Saudi sheikh might “depart on his flying carpet”; his evidence was “gelatinous … like Turkish Delight”, and the sheikh should be available for hearings at this “relatively fast-free time of the year”, and that he should appear so that “every grain of sand is sifted”.

BBC story here.