Schoolboy Error by Senior Judge Helps Sex Offender

I have previously spoken on this blog about judicial office holder Mr. Justice Lavender and his limitations as a judge.

This can be found at: https://legalbabble.law.blog/2021/06/11/dirty-tricks-in-the-high-court/

These include a tendency to support the state, and other judges, wherever possible even in the face of overwhelming data that the evidence against a member of the establishment or public body might be correct.

Now, Mr Justice Lavender has been publicly humiliated by judges at The Court of Appeal over his sentencing of former Labour politician Nazir Ahmed.

Here’s how they seemed to have happened, according to an article in the Guardian newspaper. https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/mar/17/peer-nazir-ahmeds-jail-term-for-1970s-sexual-assault-cut-by-three-years

The simple fact is that the correction made by the Appeal Court judges is over matter that Mr Justice Lavender would have been well aware of at the point of sentencing.

However, it would seem that Nicholas Lavender was more interested in pontificating during sentencing and giving his opinions regarding Ahmed’s offending than he was paying attention to the correct sentencing guidelines and requirements on his position as judge as set out in law.

It must’ve irked Nicholas Lavender that he had to sentence effectively a member of the establishment when Lavender spends so much of his judicial career supporting the establishment and covering up the effects of their misdeeds.

However, it’s disturbing to know that the little frisson of joy Lavender had when sentencing blinded him to the requirements to properly sentence the offender for the offence committed.

Given that this is a schoolboy error can it be inconceivable that there will be additional future appeals made in cases sentenced by Lavender, who may have become overexcited in other cases and overlooked clear issues that would reduce the sentence?

Watch this space!