Who Would Have Known What Trouble The Swapping Of A Few Speeding Points Could Cause?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2340178/Britains-black-woman-judge-Constance-Briscoe-charged-intending-pervert-course-justice.html

[Sqad]

Blimey..........is anyone "straight?"

[Bbbananas]

Not many, no.
Even I am slightly askew ;-)

[Sqad]

salla..LOL.

[Svejk]

Do you think the people she sent to prison might be lining up shortly for a bit of compo.

[Sqad]

I thought that "Medicine" was the only profession with an element of "racket" left in it, but i am clearly misguided.

[FredPuli43]

I think she was only an assistant recorder, as we had a few years ago. That was a barrister who sat for a few weeks , to give them experience of judicial work. They would be reported on , to see how they fared, in case they applied later to be judges.

I don't think Constance Briscoe is, or was, ever going to be promoted to the bench.

[Baldric]

///Britain's top black woman judge///

Had she been White would they have included that in the Headline?

[ichkeria]

I'm hugely confused: is this lady a "judge" actually?
She certainly wasn't actually acting in that capacity when the alleged offences took place.
Isn't the charge that she either wittingly or unwittingly affirmed false statements to be correct and therefore wittingly or unwittingly assisted Huhne and ex-Mrs Huhne in perverting the course of justice.

I'd have thought that, between the three of them, they of all people, should have realised the serious implications not only of "swapping speeding points", but then lying about it.

[Baldric]

For info,

Constance Briscoe LL.B, M.A, LL.D. is a barrister and one of England's earliest black female Recorders; she is currently suspended from sitting in that office. Wikipedia

[anotheoldgit]

Baldric

/// Had she been White would they have included that in the Headline? ///

Seeing this is still predominately a white country I wouldn't have thought so.

Makes one wonder why they even bothered to mention she was even a women.

Even the Guardian mentioned she was black and female,

/// Briscoe, who is one of Britain's most prominent 'BLACK FEMALE JUDGES' and has appeared on BBC TV's Question Time, played a major – but absent – role in the trial of Pryce. ///

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/12/judge-constance-briscoe-charged-justice

[anotheoldgit]

Baldric

/// Constance Briscoe LL.B, M.A, LL.D. is a barrister and one of England's earliest black female Recorders; she is currently suspended from sitting in that office. Wikipedia ///

Oh dear even Wikipedia has now chosen to point it out that she is black.

[Octavius]

And I would say Judge Barbara Mensah and Dame Linda Dobbs are higher up the chain of 'top black woman judge' of the year contest......

[FredPuli43]

So,she's a recorder. That's a solicitor or barrister who sits as a judge for three to six weeks a year. (The Recorder of London is a different kind of recorder; he's the senior permanent judge at the Old Bailey).

[jake-the-peg]

It is a shame we still live in a world where it's necessary to point out that a) she's a woman and b) black

Even the Guardian has felt the need albeit a lot further down the article

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/12/judge-constance-briscoe-charged-justice

Presuamble it's for blind readers

And while we're at it what is the obsession Newspapers have about reporting everybody's age? said Jake-the-Peg (34)

[Svejk]

Blimey Jake, I thought you were 14

[FredPuli43]

"Oh dear" aog? Does it distress you ? That she is black and sitting in a judicial capacity is still unusual. It shouldn't be unusual but while it is we will continue reading that description. Some on AB, of course, would never remark on a person's colour unless it was highly relevant.

Likewise, the first woman to sit at the Old Bailey and the first woman High Court Judge were always referred to as 'woman judges' rather than just judges. The High Court Judge was initially and properly referred to as Mr Justice, for quite some while, before anyone could be persuaded that Mrs Justice was appropriate!

This lady is certainly not of high rank; she's not even a judge; and certainly not the highest ranked black counsel or judge. Linda Dobbs, recently retired, was black and a High Court Judge, Mrs Justice Dobbs.

[anotheoldgit]

jake-the-peg

/// It is a shame we still live in a world where it's necessary to point out that a) she's a woman and b) black ///

Or even that we have such institutions as the National Black Police Association or the the Society of Black Lawyers etc, etc.

[Peter Pedant]

Oh squaddie really !

McCardie J blew his (own) brains out in 1923 over gambling debts
for a start.

[jake-the-peg]

Yep AOG

I imagine a significant goal for those organisations is to render themselves superfluous

[FredPuli43]

In Britain we have societies or associations for women engineers and for women lawyers (solicitors) . Why are they necessary?

We also have an association for black engineers. The US has one for black academic surgeons.

All of them are bodies which we should be able to do without because they should have no purpose.

The Society of Black Sheep does not appear to be in this category. It's for genealogists who find some villain in their ancestry