High Court judge Sir Paul Coleridge, disciplined for media comments he made in support of marriage, said the response was ‘disproportionate’, it was reported in December.
The formal warning relates to his involvement in articles for The Times newspaper in December 2012 and for the Telegraph’s website in July 2013.
Sir Paul, speaking about same-sex marriage, told The Times: ‘So much energy and time has been put into this debate for 0.1% of the population, when we have a crisis of family breakdown’. And in his Telegraph arti-cle the judge commented: ‘Stability is the name of the game and comparatively speaking that means marriage’. The Judicial Conduct Investigations Office (JCIO) – the official body that deals with judicial discipline – said the comments amount to judicial misconduct.
