UPDATE: Hyman imprisoned for 12 months / Telegraph report
Bruce Hyman, former member of Doughty Street Chambers, is to be sentenced today and, if given a custodial sentence, will be the first barrister in 800 years to be imprisoned for perverting the course of justice.
My first coverage of this: “The Boys from the Bar stuff” was on 26th August.
Victorian Maiden and Nearly Legal both note that Doughty Street Chambers are keeping silent. VM has a take on Freedom of Information which is well worth reading. VM also hopes to be first with the news on the sentence!
See also: The Lawyer 17 September
John Bolch, Family Lore, has an interesting side comment on ‘bad pennies’ in the Law.
As long as he doesn’t come out calling himself jailhouselawyer…
He got 12 moon.
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“The court heard that Hyman, a father of four, was devastated after failing to achieve a chambers tenancy and suffered from severe depression which affected his judgment.”
Affected his judgement? I expected a barrister whose actions could have got an innocent man jailed, to get a longer sentence.
Archer got 4 years for far FAR less. Hyman put a man’s reputation and liberty in jeopardy. Plus the aggravating feature of abuse of his position.
Mitigation schmitigation. If this isn’t unduly lenient, I’m a banana.
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Wasn’t this once called Subversion or Treason or something like that…
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/865
And I was sure that we had won the cold war…