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"INFORMAL RESPONSES TO JUDICIAL MISCONDUCT:
ASSESSING CHAPTER 4 OF THE JUDICIAL COUNCIL ACT
[. . .]
Author: Patrick OrCOBrien, Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Oxford
Brookes University1
[. . .]
[2022] Irish Judicial Studies Journal Vol 6(1)
[. . .]
[. . .] It seems likely that (as is the case in England and Wales) a
certain threshold of alleged misconduct must be reached for the formal
route to be justified, and that a relatively high threshold may be
applied at the initial stage of screening for admissibility. As a
consequence, however, low level misconduct is likely to be addressed
through informal social pressures completely outside of the statutory framework. These responses will not leave any mark on the public
record, creating a potentially misleading impression about the
accountability of the judiciary. [. . .]"
says
HTTPS://JudicialStudiesJournal.Ie/assets/uploads/documents/6.%20Patrick%20O'Brien%20final.pdf
That paper presents statistics from various places. Attempting to copy
and paste entire tables to the USENET would lose formatting, so
instead I show smaller excerpts.
Table 1: Complaints statistics for England and Wales
shows inter alia:
"Year
2019-20"
"Total complaints
1183"
"Upheld (%)
4%".
(It reports 3% or 2% for a different year.)
Table 4: Judicial Complaints Statistics for Scotland
shows:
"Year [. . .] 2019-20"
"Total complaints [. . .] 68"
"Upheld (%) [. . .] 0".
(It reports 4% or 2% or 1% or 0% for a different year.)
Table 5: Judicial Complaints statistics for Northern Ireland
shows:
"Year
2019"
"Total complaints
59"
"Upheld/in part as %
0".
(It reports 2% or 0% for a different year.)
Table 3: Judicial Complaints statistics for the United States
shows:
"Year [. . .] 2019"
"Total active[. . .] 2636"
"Remedial action (%) [. . .] 0.002%".
(It reports 0.0004% or 0.001% for a different year.)
That paper warns that those situations in different places are not
completely equal, but you have to compare using available data.
Such available data show to me that the United States of America have
circa the same number of reported complaints against a judge in 1 year
as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
does. However sources like
HTTPS://WWW.Britannica.com/place/United-States
and
HTTPS://WWW.Britannica.com/place/United-Kingdom
indicate that the ratios of the populations of the U.S.A. is to the
U.K. could be like 5.
(I happen to quote above a low year of "Total complaints" from Table
1. The values for "Total active" in Table 3 do not vary so much.)
That paper warns that statistics which it reports misleadingly make
judges seem to be less bad than that researcher believes judges to
be. Even that researcher understimates how evil judges are.
An episode of "Court Cam" showed a video recording of a judge
assaulting a party. Video accountability of course being a concept
which judges in Europe are afraid of, this video is from the country
of the United States of America as opposed to the U.K.
Courts in Northern Ireland say that you are not even allowed to bring
a pencil into a court without a permission! (One court in Germany is
similar.)
This episode of "Court Cam" says that this video is viral on the
Internet so I searched therefor. I fail to find as good a copy as
"Court Cam" shows - maybe you can perform better searches. I do
archive versions and a judgment against this judge in
HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/gardai/Where_are_you_from/reprimand_against_Judge_Cary_Hays/
(S.
HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/ fuer Kontaktdaten!)
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