The never-published High Court order Russell Brand won in 2015: a lifelong gag on his accuser, Sylvie Berki, that bars her even from speaking to the police.
Somewhat, but it also seems Mr Justice Jay is just an asshole to litigants in person - in direct contradiction to the rules he was supposed to follow.
Mr Justice Jay does not have a good record of dealing with litigants-in-person. Two years later, in a different case, he behaved so poorly that the Court of Appeal and then the Supreme Court found that he’d bullied a litigant-in-person. The Supreme Court found that he had aimed a “barrage of hostility” at the litigant-in-person, and “harassed and intimidated him in ways which surely would never have occurred if the claimant had been represented”.
Which puts meat on the adage that a person who represents themself has a fool for a client.
That adage assumes you are rich. A poor person who represents themselves is just poor and a victim of the system.
Increasingly so. Even the court-appointed solicitors are hugely overworked and underpaid, and often lose money on cases.
Somewhat, but it also seems Mr Justice Jay is just an asshole to litigants in person - in direct contradiction to the rules he was supposed to follow.
Hes a prize dickhead in general. Other judges mock him in their appeals judgements. Utter cock.