Straight as a judge

The Old Bailey is currently being titillated by the case of the Brazilian slapper and the immigration judges. Anyone interested in the lurid detail can read the fun reports in the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph.

From the more venerable, but less entertaining, pages of the Times, these passages caught my eye:

Judge J admitted that she had paid the cleaner between £5 and £7 per hour in cash...
...Both judges also deny being aware that the woman did not have a work permit.

It sounds like the judges did not need to know if she had a work permit because they were paying cash-in-hand and so avoiding tax and National Insurance. I wonder if the Inland Revenue is going to investigate possible criminal activity? Perhaps not.

Update 22.9.06: Daily Mail
The police might like to investigate the judge's nose.

Tax fraud and Class A drugs. It's a fun-filled life in the perhaps unfortunately Department for Constitutional Affairs. The DCA guidelines for applicants to the immigration judiciary states:

They should so conduct their private affairs as to minimise the possibility of conflict or embarrassment.

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