THE High Court judge who tried to hide the names of other judges in the Sara Sharif case stands rightly humiliated. The verdict on him from the Appeal Court represents an absolute kicking. Based solely on personal anti-Press prejudice, Mr Justice Williams decided the media could not be trusted to know which judge handed ten-year-old Sara into her abusive father’s custody.
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“He was wrong. He got carried away,” says Sir Geoffrey Vos, rightly over-ruling him and ordering the judges to be named next week. “Courts operate on the basis of the law and evidence, not judicial speculation and anecdote.”. It is the free Press’s duty to question whether that 2019 ruling led ultimately to the circumstances culminating in Sara’s murder — and perhaps to criticise whoever made it.
We will leave it to others to decide whether a judge capable of such subjective and unfair bias is still rational enough to sit at the High Court. As it is, this is a victory for the media — and the public’s right to know. WHO decides if a British court can hand a British murderer a whole-life term for an atrocity on British soil against British citizens? The British Government? Or the UN?.
It’s not a hard choice. The Government we elect to make our laws should decide the scale of punishment for monsters like Southport killer Axel Rudakubana. Except the human rights lawyers running THIS Government prefer offshoring that responsibility to an unaccountable international body.
