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Tuesday 3 October 2017

Britain's second-ever blind judge 'had no idea of the law' per Daily Mail

The Mail reports http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4939586/Britain-s-second-blind-judge-no-idea-law.html

'The country's second blind person to reach a judicial post wholly failed 'to meet the standards that are demanded by the office of a judge', according to a panel's ruling. 

The three-strong bench of senior judges ruled 'shambolic' 64-year-old immigrationjudge Amir Ali Majid had 'very little idea of either his own (limited) powers or the content of the law that is in issue'.

Their ruling was the result of appeals relating to 13 cases heard recently by Judge Majid.

Judges from the immigration and asylum chamber's upper tribunal allowed 12 appeals against the judge.'

You'll not find anything about this on the BBC. Presumably because at the BBC they are celebrating the diversity of having a blind Muslim judge, so much better than another stale white male judge. So he got a few decisions wrong (according to presumably white senior judges) that's a very small price to pay for diversity, isn't it?

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