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| Constance Briscoe sacked as judge | Constance Briscoe sacked as judge |
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| Constance Briscoe, who was jailed for 16 months for lying to police, has been dismissed as a judge. | Constance Briscoe, who was jailed for 16 months for lying to police, has been dismissed as a judge. |
| Briscoe, 57, was jailed in May for trying to pervert the course of justice as part of the police investigation into former cabinet minister Chris Huhne's speeding points. | |
| She lied to police in a statement, falsified a statement and provided a false document to an expert witness. | |
| Her dismissal was confirmed by the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office. | |
| Briscoe, who was one of Britain's first black female judges, was jailed for her role in liaising with the press over Huhne and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce's speeding points case. | |
| Both Huhne and Price received an eight month sentence for the original offence in which he passed his speeding points to her. |