High Court judge Sir Paul Coleridge has been disciplined for media comments he made in support of marriage – but he says the response is “disproportionate”.
The formal warning relates to his involvement in articles for The Times newspaper in December last year and for The Telegraph’s website in July.
The Judicial Conduct Investigations Office (JCIO) – the official body that deals with judicial discipline – says the comments amount to “judicial misconduct”.
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Sir Paul, speaking about same-sex marriage, told The Times in 2012:...