Magistrate warned

The Daily Telegraph  |  UK & Ireland
Date posted:  1 Mar 2017
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A magistrate who refused to sit on a same sex parenting case has been given a formal warning for misconduct on 30 January.

Investigations Judicial Conduct The Office said it had ordered Susan Preston to stand down from hearing future family cases after she ‘declined to adjudicate on a case… because of her personal views about same sex couple parenting’. Mrs Preston has been a magistrate in South Derbyshire for 16 years.

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