[size=+1]Judge's son caught with cocaine and Ecstasy keeps job as barrister[/size]
The son of one of the country’s top High Court judges, Henry Mostyn, was caught with cocaine and Ecstasy just weeks after qualifying as a trainee barrister.
The former Etonian and Oxford University graduate was arrested as he stood in a queue outside an east London nightclub in December last year, a tribunal heard.
The 25 year-old, whose father, Mr Justice Mostyn, was one of Britain’s most respected divorce lawyers before being appointed a judge, was held in a police cell and fingerprinted after being discovered with £40 of cocaine and Ecstasy.
The Bar Disciplinary Tribunal was told the young lawyer, who had started working at one of the capital’s leading chambers of barristers just weeks earlier, was later handed a caution by police for possession of Class A drugs.
His superiors at 4 New Square chambers, which is located just behind the High Court in central London, have since decided not to discipline him, the hearing was told.
On Monday, Mostyn, who read Mathematics at Pembroke College, avoided being disbarred despite admitting one charge of professional misconduct under the Code of Conduct of the Bar of England and Wales, which prohibits "engaging in conduct that is discreditable to a barrister".
Full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...caine-and-Ecstasy-keeps-job-as-barrister.html
The son of one of the country’s top High Court judges, Henry Mostyn, was caught with cocaine and Ecstasy just weeks after qualifying as a trainee barrister.
The former Etonian and Oxford University graduate was arrested as he stood in a queue outside an east London nightclub in December last year, a tribunal heard.
The 25 year-old, whose father, Mr Justice Mostyn, was one of Britain’s most respected divorce lawyers before being appointed a judge, was held in a police cell and fingerprinted after being discovered with £40 of cocaine and Ecstasy.
The Bar Disciplinary Tribunal was told the young lawyer, who had started working at one of the capital’s leading chambers of barristers just weeks earlier, was later handed a caution by police for possession of Class A drugs.
His superiors at 4 New Square chambers, which is located just behind the High Court in central London, have since decided not to discipline him, the hearing was told.
On Monday, Mostyn, who read Mathematics at Pembroke College, avoided being disbarred despite admitting one charge of professional misconduct under the Code of Conduct of the Bar of England and Wales, which prohibits "engaging in conduct that is discreditable to a barrister".
Full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...caine-and-Ecstasy-keeps-job-as-barrister.html
