Yesterday, solicitor Asha Khan was given a suspended prison sentence after being found guilty of perverting the course of justice.
The public interest in knowing that a member of the legal profession had herself tried to undermine the very integrity of the justice system is overwhelming.
Yet, disgracefully, the case was almost heard under a shroud of secrecy in the latest example of a court obsessing over political correctness.
Khan, a Muslim who was accused of helping her father dodge a speeding fine, had claimed that for ‘cultural reasons’ she could not speak freely in front of the Press – and, incredibly, Judge Peter Hughes agreed.
.... It was only after the intervention of this newspaper that the judge accepted he had made a mistake and reversed what risked setting a terrible precedent.
The Mail is glad that – belatedly – the sacred principle of open and transparent justice was upheld. [Daily Mail] Read more
