{"id":471,"date":"2007-11-16T20:23:12","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T20:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=471"},"modified":"2007-11-16T20:24:49","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T20:24:49","slug":"appeal-court-orders-judge-to-stand-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=471","title":{"rendered":"Appeal Court orders judge to stand down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A High Court judge, Mr Justice Singer was ordered to step down from a divorce case for saying a Saudi sheikh might &#8220;depart on his flying carpet&#8221;; his evidence was &#8220;gelatinous &#8230; like Turkish Delight&#8221;, and the sheikh should be available for hearings at this &#8220;relatively fast-free time of the year&#8221;, and that he should appear so that &#8220;every grain of sand is sifted&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>BBC story <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/7097318.stm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A High Court judge, Mr Justice Singer was ordered to step down from a divorce case for saying a Saudi sheikh might &#8220;depart on his flying carpet&#8221;; his evidence was &#8220;gelatinous &#8230; like Turkish Delight&#8221;, and the sheikh should be available for hearings at this &#8220;relatively fast-free time of the year&#8221;, and that he should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}