{"id":10254,"date":"2018-12-07T16:36:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T16:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=10254"},"modified":"2018-12-07T16:39:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T16:39:30","slug":"17-rise-in-complaints-against-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/17-rise-in-complaints-against-judges\/","title":{"rendered":"17% Rise In Complaints Against Judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawgazette.co.uk\/news\/complaints-about-judges-behaving-badly-increase-17-in-a-year\/5068610.article\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Law<\/span> Society Gazette<\/a> today reported that there has been a significant increase in complaints about inappropriate behaviour by UK Judges. The headline number may be large but it&#8217;s not as bad as it seems.<\/p>\n<p>In the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office&#8217;s annual\u00a0report there were 498 complaints raised in the preceding year however only 19 resulted in removal from office and 18 in reprimands. This is only around\u00a07.5% of complaints resulted in action which is low by any standard and although the reasons are not always released it could be for matters such as Bankruptsyor\u00a0criminal conviction (which could be a driving offence). Much of the rise was attributed to complaints\u00a0brought about matters outside\u00a0of their\u00a0remit which has distorted the numbers a bit. Some of the reprimands\u00a0were merely advice regarding their conduct or views as can be seen <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/jcio-prod-storage-1xuw6pgd2b1rf\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Tribunal-Judge-Mark-Davies-JCIO-Investigation-Statement-5118-1.pdf\">here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Overall despite its foibles, it seems that the British justice system remains one of the best in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Law Society Gazette today reported that there has been a significant increase in complaints about inappropriate behaviour by UK Judges. The headline number may be large but it&#8217;s not as bad as it seems. In the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office&#8217;s annual\u00a0report there were 498 complaints raised in the preceding year however only 19 resulted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[339],"class_list":["post-10254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-uk-law"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10254"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10256,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10254\/revisions\/10256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}