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Article: Judge quits after 'serious error'.(News)
- Article from:
- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- December 24, 2008
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THE Recorder of Birmingham was forced to resign after admitting a "serious error of judgment" by phoning a prosecution lawyer outside court.
Judge Frank Chapman said he left a voice-mail with the lawyer after "a long and stressful week".
Such contacts outside court are not allowed because they could be seen to show bias to a particular party.
Judge Chapman, 62, said: "At the end of a long and stressful week, I left a message on the voice-mail of a ...