British appeals court has reversed lower court ordering disabled woman to abort child

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I confess that I do find something about this confusing, so please be patient with me. 🙂 I’m aware that the court that forced the abortion isn’t part of a similar model to the whole self-integrated, three-branch, checks-and-balances model that we have in the U.S. But isn’t the judge a government employee with a government paycheck? To whom is she accountable?
 
This original decision should never have been taken.
You cannot thanks a robust appeals system when the main problem is that the first decision should have never been permited.
 
But the appeal system is what stopped the original decision, if there was no Court of Appeal then the original decision would stand and be carried out. You should be thankful that there was a second route when the first made an error.
 
The female dog bit was over the top. But she did seem rather snide. But you can defend the abortionist judge’s character all you like. I think the judge that uses unnecessary euphemisms to dehumanize people should be terminated and this time I will make it clear that I am not Arnold Schwarzenegger from a movie and actually mean fired, as I don’t think killing is a way to solve problems.
 
With judges, if you don’t agree with the decision you can appeal to the next level of the system, so for example if you don’t agree with decision of the Court of Protection then you can go to the Court of Appeal etc. In the case of the Court of Protection I imagine you’d ultimately end up at the ECHR.
 
This morning’s news noted that the appellate court reversed the order. I don’t have the link handy.

I’ve changed the title accordingly.

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blackforest said:
But isn’t the judge a government employee with a government paycheck? To whom is she accountable?
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blackforest said:
Is she accountable to anyone? That seems like a lot of unfettered power, but I don’t know enough to say yet.
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I believe English and Welsh and UK judges are employed by the Ministry of Justice, although I don’t think that that makes them accountable to the MoJ in the usual way that an employee is accountable to an employer. As for accountability, there is an appeals process, which for the Court of Protection involves up to four possible levels of appeal (one to an English/Welsh court, one to a UK court, and two to European courts). That is for strictly legal matters. For complaints about a judge’s personal conduct there is the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office. The head of the judiciary is the Lord Chief Justice, who is a judge, not a politician, and is appointed by the Judicial Appointments Commission. So, yes, judges are accountable to more senior judges in terms of their legal judgement and the management of cases and (ultimately) to the Lord Chief Justice (and Lord Chancellor) in terms of their personal conduct. The power of a judge sitting in the Court of Protection is far from unfettered.
 
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