City judge in drink-drive arrests resigns; Senior lawman cuts short 25-year legal career.Byline: BEN SCHOFIELD A CROWN Court judge dramatically resigned yesterday after being arrested twice for drink drive-related offences within three weeks. His Honour Judge Bruce Macmillan, 63, cut short a judicial career that started 25 years ago when he was made an assistant recorder. Resigning from the bench means he avoids the potential embarrassment of being dishonourably Adv. 1. dishonourably - in a dishonorable manner or to a dishonorable degree; "his grades were disgracefully low" discreditably, disgracefully, ignominiously, ingloriously, shamefully, dishonorably disrobed if he is found guilty of any offences. The pounds 128,000-a-year judge was first arrested on the M6 in Lancashire on August 27 and charged with drinkdriving. Then, last Thursday, Merseyside Police Merseyside Police is the Home Office police force responsible for policing Merseyside in North West England. The force area is 647 square kilometres with a population of around 1.5 million. At present the force has 4,466 police officers plus over 2,000 police staff. found him allegedly drunk in charge of his car in Toxteth. The Presiding Judge presiding judge n. 1) in both state and federal appeals court, the judge who chairs the panel of three or more judges during hearings and supervises the business of the court. effectively suspended him after the first brush with the law. In a statement, the Ministry of Justice said: "His Honour Judge Macmillan has resigned as a Circuit Judge with immediate effect." Judge Macmillan, who sat at Liverpool Crown Court, is still due in front of Chorley Magistrates on September 30 in relation to the first arrest. Then, Merseyside Police had followed his black Vauxhall Signum through Merseyside and along the M6 into Lancashire. He was pulled over and breathalysed near the Charnock Richard services Charnock Richard services is a motorway service station, between junctions 27 and 28 of the M6 motorway in England. It was the first service station on that motorway. , between Junctions 27 and 28. The senior lawyer was charged and released on bail. Judge Macmillan, of Sefton Park This article is about the public park in Liverpool, England. For the place in Adelaide, Australia, see Sefton Park, South Australia. Sefton Park is public park in the Sefton Park district of south Liverpool, England. Road, was also swooped on by police in Hill Street, Toxteth, last week. Officers breathalysed him again and took him in for questioning. He was released on bail that evening, pending further enquiries. Judge Macmillan was called to the Bar in 1969 and appointed as an assistant recorder in 1984. He became a recorder in 1988 and was appointed as a circuit judge in 1993. Since then he has dealt with some of Merseyside's most violent and dangerous criminals. Earlier this year, he hit the headlines when he told a naked burglar his failed attempt to break into a Tesco store through its chimney would have been "decidedly comic", had the offence not been so serious. And, in 2007, the judge was also responsible for denying Akinwale Arobieke his appeal against an interim sexual offences prevention order stopping him from touching boys' muscles. |
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