Constance Briscoe sacked from the judiciary

 
Sacked: Disgraced barrister Constance Briscoe was dumped from the judiciary today
6 August 2014

Disgraced barrister Constance Briscoe who was jailed for lying to police over the Chris Huhne speeding points scandal has been sacked as a part-time judge.

Brisco, 57, is serving a 16-month sentence after her conviction for intending to pervert the course of justice over the investigation into the former Cabinet minister.

She was jailed in May after it emerged that she had helped Huhne’s then-wife economist Vicky Pryce, a friend and also her neighbour, to reveal information about Huhne's points-swapping to newspapers after the couple split in 2010.

The Old Bailey heard how Briscoe - one of the first black women to sit as a judge in the UK - misled police in her witness statements, deliberately giving them an altered copy of one of her statements.

In a statement today, a spokesman for the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office said she had been removed from judicial office.

The statement said: "Miss Constance Briscoe, a Recorder and Fee-Paid Tribunal Judge of the First-Tier Health, Education and Social Care Chamber, has been removed from judicial office without further investigation by the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice following her conviction and sentence for perverting the course of justice.

"Miss Briscoe has not undertaken any judicial duties since her arrest on October 6 2012."

Briscoe, the author of the best-selling memoir Ugly and its sequel, Beyond Ugly, has been reported to have been compiling a prison memoir during her time in jail.

When she was jailed, Mr Justice Baker told the mother of two that her conduct had struck "at the heart of our much-cherished system of criminal justice".

After the verdict Huhne, who was forced to resign over the speeding points scandal, released a statement in which he described Briscoe as a "compulsive and self-publicising fantasist", declaring: "British justice is likely to be a lot fairer with Briscoe behind bars."

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