[Air-L] "If pictures of you naked end up on an internet site"....

[Mary K. Bryson]

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:

³"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.²

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
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Predictably, the person represented in those images, who did not post them
online, ³requested to be temporarily relieved of her duties as a sitting
justice of Manitoba's Court of Queen's Bench.²

Read more: 
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2010/09/01/man-judge-steps-aside.htm
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Interesting times. So many cameras and no where to go that is outside the
frame.

Mary
-- 
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Institutes in Education (NCIE) & Center for Cross-Faculty Inquiry (CCFI),
Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia
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