How On Earth Did This Man Get To This Postion?

[youngmafbog]

Ignore the fact he is blind, that has no bearing on his incompetence or ability to do the job so I dont understand why a fuss is being made of it.

He appears to be totally out of his depth so why did he get put in that position?

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

[woofgang]

No I wouldn't have said that 2 years rules out a medical reason

[RobNorth]

"How on earth did this man get to this position?"
Simple: very high PC quotient - that is the most important qualification now.
As new judge says we can expect more of it and as for the 30 judges being advertised for from the minorities and disadvantaged I would not expect to see a single one make it from the millions of our regular great unwashed who have been disadvantaged for centuries...

[Gromit]

RobNorth
This was not a new appointment. He had been in position for 20 years. Not sure there was a PC quotient in 1997 (don't think it exists now except in the minds of right wing fantasists).

[jno]

18 years of no complaints and two years of lots does point to something happening recently, rather than long-standing ineptness. Well, maybe we'll see, maybe we won't.

[jim360]

https://tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk/utiac?page=1&search%5Bclaimant%5D=&;search%5Bcountry%5D=&search%5Bcountry_guideline%5D=&search%5Bjudge%5D=&search%5Bquery%5D=majid&search%5Breported%5D=all&;utf8=%E2%9C%93

I think that "material errors of law" in this judge's decisions actually go back rather further than a few years.

(Note that not all of the 146 hits in the link above are about Judge Majid, although most of them are).

[DTCwordfan]

Is this a case of the 'law is an ass' per chance?

[jim360]

No, but it's probably a case of "the judge is a pillock".

[CrapAtCryptics]

Maybe they thought as we had a blind Home Secretary for a while a blind judge would be ok - justice is often depicted as blindfolded.