Well, Justicia is blindfolded and would/should thus not see whether the judge speaking her judgment is naked or not... Greets --u At 15:16 Uhr -0700 1.9.2010, Mary K. Bryson wrote:
Interesting story ran today on the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) news site about naked pictures of a Canadian Judge that appeared online, that cites the learned opinion and judgment of the whole unfortunate event passed by the Dean of Law at a major Canadian University as follows:
""If pictures of you naked end up on an internet site, it's quite difficult to say you have the credibility to be a judge," said Sébastien Grammond, dean of civil law at the University of Ottawa.
Grammond said a judge ultimately represents the ideal of justice and therefore the judge's conduct and image reflect on the justice system as a whole. The judge is, in a sense, the embodiment of the justice system, something the Supreme Court has noted in a past judgment."
So Dean Grammond explicitly (a) decouples responsibility for the act of posting an image of a naked person (of a woman) on the net with the person (her husband) posting that image while simultaneously, (b) links culpability for the simple act of representation itself - as it were - with the person represented in that image... Truly bizarre (while very familiar) reasoning.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2010/08/31/judge-manitoba-douglas.ht ml
Predictably, the person represented in those images, who did not post them online, "requested to be temporarily relieved of her duties as a sitting justice of Manitoba's Court of Queen's Bench."
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2010/09/01/man-judge-steps-aside.htm l#ixzz0yJoew33o
Interesting times. So many cameras and no where to go that is outside the frame.
Mary -- Dr. Mary K. Bryson, Professor and Director, Network of Centers and Institutes in Education (NCIE) & Center for Cross-Faculty Inquiry (CCFI), Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia Archive: http://ubc.academia.edu/MaryKBryson Current Research: http://www.queerhealth.ca
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