Judges have been told to stop abusing court wifi after three of them crashed it watching movies and listening to Spotify.
An investigation was launched at an unnamed court in South East England after staff complained about continually poor internet speeds. To the embarrassment of all, the culprits were identified as three judges. They were found to have brought the service to a crawl downloading video "wholly unrelated to the cases they were trying" and accessing "the likes of Spotify and iPlayer".
Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales Lord Justice Fulford has now written to all 2,000 full-time members of the judiciary telling them that certain of their number are misusing court wifi to stream media, "most particularly downloading or watching films and box-sets" which are irrelevant to judicial business. He warned them not to access "unnecessary websites", or download bandwidth-hogging amounts of data.
Last year, four judges lost their jobs after they were caught using court computers to browse smut. A spokesman for the Courts and Tribunals judiciary declined to specify exactly what the three south east judges were ogling, but he did clarify that "it was not pornography".
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An investigation was launched at an unnamed court in South East England after staff complained about continually poor internet speeds. To the embarrassment of all, the culprits were identified as three judges. They were found to have brought the service to a crawl downloading video "wholly unrelated to the cases they were trying" and accessing "the likes of Spotify and iPlayer".
Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales Lord Justice Fulford has now written to all 2,000 full-time members of the judiciary telling them that certain of their number are misusing court wifi to stream media, "most particularly downloading or watching films and box-sets" which are irrelevant to judicial business. He warned them not to access "unnecessary websites", or download bandwidth-hogging amounts of data.
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Box work :) |
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Box set :( |
Last year, four judges lost their jobs after they were caught using court computers to browse smut. A spokesman for the Courts and Tribunals judiciary declined to specify exactly what the three south east judges were ogling, but he did clarify that "it was not pornography".