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

Ulf-Dietrich Reips u.reips at ikerbasque.org
Wed Sep 1 15:24:14 PDT 2010


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
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>
>Interesting times. So many cameras and no where to go that is outside the
>frame.
>
>Mary
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