Godwin's law

[Zigenare]

Illegal?
A quick check for the department of reading says that he was handed a reprimand by the BSB because he behaved in a way which was likely to diminish the trust and confidence.
Doesn't say illegal.
Looks like you've fallen on your slippery slope.
If you don't like the Bar Standards Board, why not move to some country that supports your view?

Leave the drugs alone, they appear to be inhibiting your cognitive abilities.

[vetran]

I will just leave this here

[WTFH]

Sounds like something "Rumpole of the Bailey" would've done. Just unfortunate that the magistrates concerned lacked sufficient education and humour and then decided to run crying to Mummy (The Bar Standards Board). A quick check of my law library makes no mention of performing a Nazi Salute as being illegal in England and Wales. If I were the Barrister involved I'd appeal, just for the hell of it.

Oh well, score one more for the department of hurty words.

Illegal?
A quick check for the department of reading says that he was handed a reprimand by the BSB because he behaved in a way which was likely to diminish the trust and confidence.
Doesn't say illegal.
Looks like you've fallen on your slippery slope.
If you don't like the Bar Standards Board, why not move to some country that supports your view?

[Zigenare]

Jawohl means many things including:

Affirmative
Yup
Yes
Yessir
Absolutely
That's right
Yes sir
Yes ma'am.

It's only associated with the German military by people who watch the old WW2 films. And £800 an hour barristers.

Sounds like something "Rumpole of the Bailey" would've done. Just unfortunate that the magistrates concerned lacked sufficient education and humour and then decided to run crying to Mummy (The Bar Standards Board). A quick check of my law library makes no mention of performing a Nazi Salute as being illegal in England and Wales. If I were the Barrister involved I'd appeal, just for the hell of it.

Oh well, score one more for the department of hurty words.

[NotAllThere]

Jawohl means “yes, indeed” or “yes, sir” and is often associated with the German military.

Jawohl means many things including:

Affirmative
Yup
Yes
Yessir
Absolutely
That's right
Yes sir
Yes ma'am.

It's only associated with the German military by people who watch the old WW2 films. And £800 an hour barristers.

[Paddy]

At £800 per hour earnings, he was fined peanuts.

[JustKeepSwimming]

Ageist!

Rupert Murdoch was still working until September this year at aged 92.

If it's your own business you can do what you want with it really. I'm doubtful how much work Murdoch actually did in the last decade, his family seem pretty involved.

You have to be 35 to be president but Biden would be 86 and Trump 82 at the end of the next term! The entire upper echelons of the US are one foot in the grave, some I'm not convinced are still alive, looking at you McConnell.

Sieg heiling at magistrates is not the actions of someone in control of their faculties.

[SueEllen]

If he's been a barrister for over 50 years, that means he must be in his mid 70s+. Dude needs to be retired.

Surely Biden and his friends have shown it might not be the best idea to allow the elderly to hold such positions.

Ageist!

Rupert Murdoch was still working until September this year at aged 92.

[JustKeepSwimming]

If he's been a barrister for over 50 years, that means he must be in his mid 70s+. Dude needs to be retired.

Surely Biden and his friends have shown it might not be the best idea to allow the elderly to hold such positions.

[vetran]

should help his immigration practice no end.

[SueEllen]

Oh dear!

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023...te-nazi-salute

A barrister who was found to have raised his hand in a Nazi salute in court has been fined by his professional regulator and handed a reprimand.

Thomas Davidson, who has been a barrister for more than 50 years, was found by the Bar Standards Board (BSB) to have “behaved in a way which was likely to diminish the trust and confidence which the public places in him or in the profession”.

A three-person panel concluded that he committed professional misconduct in breach of the code of conduct of the Bar of England and Wales.

Davidson was fined £250 for his behaviour, which occurred during a hearing at Salisbury magistrates court on 7 February last year, and ordered to pay costs of £1,750.

The BSB has not yet published its full decision, first reported by Legal Futures, but a summary on the board’s website says: “Following the conclusion of a trial during which he had represented a defendant before a bench consisting of three lay magistrates, and after the chairperson raised with him the issue of his having used a German accent during the proceedings and telling him that this conduct had been inappropriate, Mr Davidson looked at the bench and said ‘Jawohl’ at the same time as raising a hand in a Nazi salute, which conduct was seriously offensive and discreditable.”

Jawohl means “yes, indeed” or “yes, sir” and is often associated with the German military. Davidson has 21 days to appeal and the BSB website says his sentence has yet to take effect.

He is listed as a barrister with CHL chambers in north London and at 160 Fleet Street chambers, where he is a “door tenant” – someone who is affiliated with the set but does not conduct business from the chambers’ premises.

The 160 Fleet Street chambers website says Davidson has a specialist criminal practice that also touches on immigration, family and commercial law. It says he is a former crown prosecutor, sat as a fee-paid immigration judge between 1992 and 2016 and has lectured in commercial law for more than 20 years.

Fleet Street Chambers said it was the first it had heard of the matter and declined to comment further. The Guardian also attempted to contact Davidson through CHL chambers.