“Your fall from grace as a result of these convictions is spectacular,” Judge Brian Keith told Adoboli when he sentenced him. “You are profoundly un-self-conscious of your own failings. You were arrogant enough to think that the bank’s rules for traders didn’t apply to you.”
I think having the power of life and death over people must affect you over time. I think it’s like the police. If a big part of your job is punishing people, you probably get into it after a while.
Judge’s love to add literary flair to their judgements. Check out this judges rulling following a junk lawsuit against Eminem by a high school bully he wrote a song about. There’s actually more, I read to most of the summary judgement, it’s really clever.
"Mr Bailey complains that his rap is trash / so he’s seeking compensation in the form of cash.
"Bailey thinks he’s entitled to some monetary gain / because Eminem used his name in vain. / The lyrics are stories noone would take as fact / they’re an exaggeration of a childish act.
“It is therefore this court’s ultimate position / that Eminem is entitled to summary disposition.”
Ohai, what you’ve just posted is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on this forum is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
I think this is a worthy admonition. A lot of the time, judges provide their own opinions and editorials in the verdicts of court documents themselves. What the judge said is a bit more harsh than usual but totally justified.
Well, given that the guy’s defense was “The bank made me do it,” and the bank’s (upheld) defense was “No we didn’t,” it’s not all that overboard. It just uses british sentence construction, which makes it sound a bit more draconian.
I think that comes natural to alot of people in the law profession, since all they do is read/write. My sister and an old friend are both lawyers and they have that same flair for writing.