19 March 2015
Three judges have been removed from office following allegations that they viewed pornographic material on office IT. There is no suggestion that the material viewed by District Judge Timothy Bowles, Immigration Judge Warren Grant, and Deputy District Judge and Recorder Peter Bullock included illegal content. However, the Lord Chancellor and Lord Chief Justice concluded that this was an inexcusable misuse of their judicial IT accounts and wholly unacceptable conduct.
A fourth judge, Recorder Andrew Maw has resigned after similar material was found on his IT account. The judges were not linked in any way.(See "An own e-goal?": Chris Bryden & Michael Salter explain why common sense trumps policy in cases involving online misconduct)
