Criticism against a Chief District Judge for allowing her husband to read sections of a draft for a judgment

The Chief Parliamentary Ombudsman criticises a Chief District Judge for allowing her husband to read sections of a judgment that had not yet been pronounced, and by doing so she violated a confidentiality regulation. In an assessment of the severity of what has occurred, the Chief Parliamentary Ombudsman finds that based on the contents of the disclosed sections of the judgment draft it is not possible to draw any conclusions about the judgment nor the court’s assessments, that the information was not disclosed to anyone other than the husband and that the risk of further disclosure appears to be very small.