As Adam Wagner’s post on Inforrm reported, the Senior Presiding Judge and the Senior President of Tribunals has issued new guidance to all courts and tribunal judicial office holders in England and Wales.
While it does not entirely prohibit blogging and social media use, it advises that “judicial office holders who blog (or who post comments on other people’s blogs) must not identify themselves as members of the judiciary” and “must also avoid expressing opinions which, were it to become known that they hold judicial office, could damage public confidence in their own impartiality or in the judiciary in general“.
