{"id":888,"date":"2009-04-24T22:35:03","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T21:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=888"},"modified":"2009-04-24T22:35:03","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T21:35:03","slug":"judge-sacked-for-being-rude-to-solicitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=888","title":{"rendered":"Judge sacked for being rude to solicitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-full wp-image-889\" style=\"width:130px;\">\r\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/straw_jack.jpg\" alt=\"straw_jack\" width=\"130\" height=\"90\" \/>\r\n\t<div>straw_jack<\/div>\r\n<\/div>District Judge Margaret Short has been removed by the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice after a \u201chistory of complaints\u201d including \u201cinappropriate, petulant and rude\u201d behaviour towards solicitors appearing in court.<\/p>\n<p>She is the first judge to be removed since Judge Bruce Campbell was dismissed for smuggling whisky into England from Guernsey in 1983.<\/p>\n<p>The Office for Judicial Complaints started a judicial investigation in 2006 after the judge had taken annual leave when told not to; refused to hand over papers to assist the investigation into her behaviour and made serious \u201cuntrue\u201d allegations against support staff.<\/p>\n<p>Judicial Complaints press release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judicialcomplaints.gov.uk\/publications\/news.htm\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>straw_jack District Judge Margaret Short has been removed by the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice after a \u201chistory of complaints\u201d including \u201cinappropriate, petulant and rude\u201d behaviour towards solicitors appearing in court. She is the first judge to be removed since Judge Bruce Campbell was dismissed for smuggling whisky into England from Guernsey in [&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-888","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\/888","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=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":890,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}