A judge has been sacked with a pseudonym to post comments about cases that he was involved on a paper website in.
Recorder Jason Dunn-Shaw, of Maidstone Chambers in Kent, is known to have known as one person that a “donkey” and many others “narrow-minded and bigoted”.
He also accused the others of rapping “without thinking things through”.
Mr Dunn-Shaw advised KentOnline– that the site where the comments were submitted — he had been “dismayed” he had been sacked.
Dunn-Shaw was commenting on news reports regarding a case had been sitting as a judge in Canterbury Crown Court, yet a second for which he had been a barrister.
The Judicial Conduct Investigations Office (JCIO) stated his behaviour had been “below standard”.
The judge told the BBC he will be appealing to the Ombudsman “to whine about the process, which in my mind was flawed and unjust”.
In quotations to KentOnline, he stated the JCOI accepted his comments were produced under a pseudonym.
He added: “Their other condemnation is of comments I made about the webpages of Facebook friends that I believed to have been personal.
“It appears to me unjust that the monitoring of anonymous material places me where I am now.”
Mr Dunn-Shaw — who has expertise in both prosecution and defence — has worked on death by dangerous driving, drugs smuggling offences and fraud, as well as more than 45 murder trials during his career.
A spokesman for the JCIO said: “Within his own name that he used publicly available social media sites to post material or not eliminate material which was not compatible with all the dignity of judicial office or suggested a lack of impartiality on topics of public controversy. ”
“The Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice concluded that this behaviour fell below the standard expected of a judicial office holder and have eliminated Mr Dunn-Shaw from judicial office.”
source http://www.hurstpierpoint-online.co.uk/judge-sacked-for-trolling-individuals-on-news-stories-that-were-internet-rocketnews/
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