Standpoint - Welcome to Standpoint http://standpointmag.co.uk Welcome to the Standpoint magazine, the culture and politics monthly en Complaints of prejudice and illiteracy /node/3246 <!--paging_filter--><p>The story of the JP who was required to apologise for complaining about a foreign defendant has already been covered in the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1297011/JP-forced-apologise-saying-migrant-abused-hospitality.html">Daily Mail</a>. But what struck me when I read the account given by the Office for Judicial Complaints in its <a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.judicialcomplaints.gov.uk%2Fdocs%2FOJC_Annual_Report_2009_-_2010.pdf">annual report</a> was how badly written it was.</p> <p>Read the following passage for yourself and work out where the commas ought to go. Incidentally, the other examples on page 18 of its report show an inability to use hyphens or to spell &quot;driving licence&quot;.</p><p><a href="/node/3246"><span>read more</span></a></p> /node/3246#comments Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:52:59 +0100 Joshua Rozenberg 3246 at http://standpointmag.co.uk