Ms Page said @DavidLammy’s “manipulative” use of “people’s pain” to support his measures was outrageous – prompting her to quit her role on a powerful legal watchdog this month in protest.
“Once I watched it unfold and [Mr Lammy] and @sarahsackman
, his junior minister, started exploiting the very brave women who’d come to sit in the public gallery – rape victims – exploiting their stories ... I just thought, this is not something that I can silently watch,” said Ms Page.
Ms Page said Mr Lammy’s plans to let judges preside over the majority of criminal trials risks could give rise to scandal on a similar scale to the Post Office in future.
She said: “To put everything in the hands of a judge is a scenario that can so easily lead to miscarriages of justice and I think it will become rife if we go down this road.
“Judges are part of the establishment… It’s just not the same as 12 ordinary people who come with no preconceptions, who come ready to take their responsibilities incredibly seriously.”
Ms Page added: “Every single person has their prejudices, their preconceptions [but] what makes it worse as a judge is that you then have to go through your career listening to lots and lots of cases and starting inevitably to form your own views about certain types of case, certain types of witness, certain types of defendant.”
Ms Page warned that the record backlogs currently facing Britain’s courts will not be solved by Mr Lammy’s changes. At the same time, the Government is failing to fix “all the real things that will actually change the backlog”, she said.
MP Olivia Bailey has deleted this post. She will claim ‘abuse’.
But the vast majority of people who responded were asking her why orgs such as @AllianceLGB and @LesbianLabour were not invited but men who manipulate and gaslight women were…
Dear X
I need your help.
As you may know, I was doxed by Fred Wallace who posted my name, picture and partial home address here on X.
I made a complaint to the @metpoliceuk and today I was called back by one of their officers.
Name: Pc/Officer Humphreys.
Badge No. 2417.
Based at Lewisham Police Station. @MPSLewisham
Officer Humphreys asked what had given rise to the doxing and I told him that I hold the position that men cannot become women.
He immediately, without taking a breath said "well, that's transphobic".
Officer Humphries then proceeded to harangue me about my 'transphobia' and 'homophobia'.
I told him that I was not confident in the way he responded and that I would be reporting him to his superiors.
He said "well you won't get anywhere".
I then tried to explain to him that being 'transphobic' is not a crime and that gender critical beliefs are protected under the Forstater Ruling.
I also told him about the Supreme Court ruling that sex, in law, means biology and not identity.
At this point in the conversation, PC Humphreys put the phone down on me.
PC Humphreys seemed to have no understanding of his responsibility to act as an impartial public servant.
He also seemed unconcerned that I felt threatened and that I and my family could be put at risk by the doxing.
His only interest was in berating me for my beliefs.
I have made an in-person complaint at Lewisham Police Station and I will be making an appointment to discuss this incident with my MP @JanetDaby
We are being failed by a captured police force.
@SexMattersOrg@SpeechUnion
Please can you Rx this.
Thank you.
Dr P.