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UK NEWS: POLICE OFFICER WINS DISCRIMINATION CASE

February 23, 2012

The Voice reports that a black gay police officer has won a case of racial and sexual orientation discrimination against Scotland Yard. Det Con Kevin Maxwell, 33, who works in the Met Police’s counter terrorism command, reportedly told the tribunal he was exposed to racist and homophobic comments from other officers and seniors during duty and training sessions, which he found to be an offensive environment to work in. “Such practices and behaviour have no place in a modern police service,” Simon […]

UK NEWS: MOTHER LOSES LIBEL CASE AGAINST DAUGHTER WHO WROTE A BOOK ABOUT HER ABUSIVE CHILDHOOD

December 2, 2008

Constance Briscoe and Carmen Briscoe-Mitchell The mother of a high-flying barrister has lost her libel case over a book in which her daughter accused her of child abuse. Carmen Briscoe-Mitchell, 74, claimed Constance Briscoe, one of the first black women to sit as a judge in Britain, had written a ‘piece of fiction’ in her best-selling memoir, Ugly. She sued part-time judge Ms Briscoe, 51, and publishers Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, who brought out her memoir in January 2006. Both denied libel […]