Political leanings of two judges involved in Epping migrant hotel case – and who they sided with

Interesting. The start of the piece:

“The Appeal Court judge who ruled in favour of Home Secretary Yvette Cooper in the Epping migrant hotel case is a long-standing Labour supporter.

Lord Justice David Bean, 71, is a former treasurer of the Society of Labour Lawyers and chaired the left-leaning Fabian Society, which is affiliated to the Labour Party, in 1989 and 1990.

He was also – with Sir Tony Blair’s barrister wife Cherie – a founder member in 2000 of the left-wing Matrix Chambers, whose members include the current attorney general, Lord Hermer.

On its website, the Society of Labour Lawyers describes itself as “a thinktank and affiliated socialist society which provides legal and policy advice to the Labour Party”.

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One thought on “Political leanings of two judges involved in Epping migrant hotel case – and who they sided with

  1. So in keeping with his Judicial Oath to “do right to all manner of people after the laws and usages of this realm, without fear or favour, affection or ill will” and in keeping with The Guide to Judicial Conduct (see p14), obviously he recused himself from the case.

    Oh, no, hang on… despite this and the internationally accepted Bangalore Principles of Judicial Conduct, which state that judges must act impartially, and their conduct should be free of even the appearance of bias, he carried on.

    In the UK, that wasn’t illegal in itself, however, and was for the parties involved to challenge his right to judge. If they said nothing, they de facto approved of him.

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