https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/aug/11/patricia-lynch-john-hennigan-complaints-made-after-judge-trades-insults-with-defendant-in-court

Fair play to her, I think it will get her in some bother though. On a side note what a charmer Hennigan is.

Quality reply from a judge

Heard it yesterday and had a bit of a laugh.
Good on her. 😆

i can’t work out which C word it was… the one for the female or male genitalia? I’m guessing likely the female. If so that’s a bit aggressive of the judge, not really the sort of word used in public whilst representing the courts, the queen etc. but yes good reply!

Don’t know If it’s my privacy settings, but on that link it’s says the actual words used 😯

The Grauniad always print the &%#@ words 😆

Judge has much respect from me. I like the ‘**** off judge’, ‘you too’ exchange just as much.

Not condoning judges swearing in all circumstances but I think she was spot on for this one…

Looks like she was just stating the obvious, respect to her.

Now I don’t want to sound stereotypical but I wonder which way he voted, in or out?

Brilliant – he looks like a lovely chap.

I think it will get her in some bother though

was on the front of the metro yesterday, pretty sure someone from the oversight org said the judge was not being investigated over it.

I think it’s fun to give it back to the prisoner in a language he understands however. Court is a place where people like the man in the dock can watch how decent human being act towards each other. I’d prefer is she put him down with something that reflected her intelligence and the higher standards a courtroom upholds. Don’t lower yourself.

Apparently its a new craze!

Saw this recently, it’s the word for word transcript from a court in Georgia (‘merica), it’s been read by the cast of Rick & Morty (which just makes it even better).

NSFW BTW 🙂

As with most things like this it is not what people say – that is largely irrelevant, it is the way they say it. You can use offensive language in a non offensive way and non offensive language in an offensive way, it’s all in the context. I’m sure the judge said it in a very edifying way and not just in a way that came across as a bit of a slanging match.

Quality reply from a judge

But it wasn’t a quality reply at all it was utterly witless

Without hesitation as soon as I read it I knew that I would have replied
“What bit of a **** do you mean Mr Hennigan only you don’t look like the sort of man who would know his way around one”

Is that wittier?

It was just a quick retort to what he’d said and not out the blue use of the C word. No doubt it came after a lengthy and lab(ia)orious court session.

TBH, it’s nice to see that a judge is unflappable.

I sat on two trials as a juror with tis judge. she is an absolute legend, made the two weeks slightly less painfully boring!

Is that wittier?

I didn’t claim it to be witty, just that her reply was witless. she was called a **** so she called him one back, I don’t suppose that was anything he wouldn’t hear everyday of his life. Far better to come back with something that might actually get the court laughing at him.

Far better to come back with something that might actually get the court laughing at him.

That sounds like a pointless aim.
I cant judge the judges response as I’m not qualified in judging or witty banter. She no doubt is qualified in one at least and possibly both.

Don’t think she comes out of this very well, it really wasn’t a smart thing to do. But I may be having a sense of humour failure.

I cant judge the judges response as I’m not qualified in judging or witty banter. She no doubt is qualified in one at least and possibly both.

Don’t confuse qualified with competent, I’m sure we have all worked with people who have shown us they are very different things and often a long way apart. 🙂

Very judicious use of the English language as far as I can see..
The language has many words and in the hands of the percipient user, each is valid.

as you were

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But it wasn’t a quality reply at all it was utterly witless

Without hesitation as soon as I read it I knew that I would have replied
“What bit of a **** do you mean Mr Hennigan only you don’t look like the sort of man who would know his way around one”

I’m having a party.

You’re not invited.

for making Nazi salutes at a pub in London; he claimed he had only been raising his arm to collect his change after paying for a drink.

From a very tall bar-person? 🙄

Has nothing on this (based word for word on an actual court transcript)

This feels oddly like the judge broke the fourth wall for want of a better expression. The idea that she’s not a real person, or her position means she can’t say what she thinks, or retort in kind is a weird piece of social etiquette . Understandable but weird.

She was verbally attacked and she responded in kind. From the description of the defendant I feel a slight sense of frustration he wasn’t dealing with Judge Dredd as opposed to Judge Lynch.

Must be a slow news day

” Yeah mate! I’m a judgemental **** at that…. and that outburst has just bought you an extra month……. Cooler – 30 Days.”

“Stupid fat ****” would have been more appropriate