{"id":717,"date":"2008-12-23T22:49:21","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T22:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=717"},"modified":"2008-12-23T22:49:41","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T22:49:41","slug":"exemplary-judge-resigns-after-serious-error-of-judgment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=717","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Exemplary&quot; judge resigns after serious error of judgment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The 62-year-old&nbsp; Recorder of Birmingham, Judge Frank Chapman, has resigned after admitting a &#8220;serious error of judgment&#8221; by phoning a prosecution lawyer outside court, after a stressful week. <\/h3>\n<p>The defendant in the sexual offences trial will be retried in January.  <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<b>Judicial office holders must always fulfil the very highest standards of practice and conduct<\/b> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Lord Chief Justice and Lord Chancellor <\/p>\n<p>News story <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/west_midlands\/7798507.stm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 62-year-old&nbsp; Recorder of Birmingham, Judge Frank Chapman, has resigned after admitting a &#8220;serious error of judgment&#8221; by phoning a prosecution lawyer outside court, after a stressful week. The defendant in the sexual offences trial will be retried in January. &nbsp;Judicial office holders must always fulfil the very highest standards of practice and conduct The [&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-717","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\/717","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=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}