What would happen here? - Pornography judges fired

THERE is an impressive directness, a reassuring absence of ambiguity or sentiment about the decision to sack three British judges because they used official IT accounts to watch pornography.

What would happen here? - Pornography judges fired

THERE is an impressive directness, a reassuring absence of ambiguity or sentiment about the decision to sack three British judges because they used official IT accounts to watch pornography.

Though, according to the UK’s Judicial Conduct Investigations Office, the pornography was not illegal in content the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice concluded it was an “inexcusable misuse” of their official accounts and “wholly unacceptable conduct for a judicial office holder”. The three judges were not linked in any way and a fourth judge resigned before the inquiry concluded.

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