MS was charged with attempted child abduction but the charge was withdrawn from the jury as her actions were ‘merely preparatory’. In the end, she was charged, as she had ‘embarked upon the crime proper’
Page v Lord Chancellor (2021)
Page was a former magistrate who had been dismissed due to his strongly held views against samesex couples adopting children, which were based on his Christian beliefs. While acting as a magistrate, he had refused to sign an adoption agreement based on his views of the appropriateness of a samesex couple’s adoption request. He later repeated his opinion in a BBC interview.On both occasions he was reprimanded by the Lord Chief Justice. After the BBC interview, he was removed from his role as a magistrate. He was also a nonexecutive director of the NHS Trust, who took similar disciplinary action.
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