Like many of my generation I am subject to annual blood tests which serve to pacify any anxiety I might have on my general well being [so far so good] and allow the NHS the earliest opportunity at the cheapest cost to right that which might seem wrong. It does this by analysing and classifying blood tests according to an "average". I had recent cause to study some of my results over the last decade or so and noticed that the "average" figure against which my personal result was normal or abnormal was not a constant; inquiries informed me that some of those figures were a local population average. As an example in August 2023 my serum potassium reading was "normal" between 3.5- 5.1. In April this year the "normal range" was 3.5- 5.3. Has the error allowed in analysis been subtly altered? Has the population`s blood been contaminated? Has the measurement system developed inaccuracies? In other words is our being medically out of step mathematically a cause for concern or an attempt by the state to allow greater variation to pass unquestioned?
And so to the world of woke folk. In 2006 a wonderful German film Lives of Others exposed the system by which the communist government of the then East Germany kept dissidence and dissidents under control by their secret police the Stasi. That was then, this is now. The judiciary from the lowest level magistrates to the members of the Supreme Court is arguably the most tightly controlled group of professionals not only on the public payroll but amongst all the professions. Their every attribute or profile is in the public domain but they are appointed in secret. Almost their every public statement is subject to oversight. And now a combination of so called progressive thinking and a fear of accusations of being unfair or bias in their behind the scenes activities has led to iniquities of which a Parisienne concierge of 1789 would recognise as not merely intrusive but in their own way, deadly.
THE JUDICIAL CONDUCT INVESTIGATIONS OFFICE ostensibly is the fairest and most open of supervisory authorities which plague this nation. It is a classic example of an organisation seeing all the trees and unable to recognise the wood. It follows {or has led} a pattern seen in numerous cases of maladministration in health authorities, children`s care and uncorrected injustices within the legal system to name but a few.
The latest fly to be ensnared by the secretive soundings of the JCIO spider is His Honour Judge (HHJ) Martin Davis. Rather than re-stating his encounter readers should read for themselves the published conclusion or verdict on his supposed wrong doing.
There is a single line within that apology of a report which bears thinking about above all others; "the complainant, a female member of staff who was subordinate to him, and therefore unable to object to anything said, and who did not know him."
I find this extraordinary. Such an apparent mouse of a woman yet apparently sensible enough to be employed by HMCTS.......
The bottom line is that an unknown accuser has left a black mark on the career of an honourable man and this action has been justified by fellow judges. This is the lives of others being played in real time in England in 2024. Is misconduct a product of our times? As with my blood tests how far does "fashion", average or wokeness play in such decisions. Is today`s street protester tomorrow`s fascist rabble rouser? Just as the virus of #antisemitism in the guise of being pro Palestinian or anti Zionist has infiltrated all corners of society it seems the daughters of the Me Too fanatics have found a new home within the English justice system.
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