British Lawyer Fined $12K for Anti-Semitic Rant
A British lawyer who in 2009 said she “couldn’t stand Jewish people” during an office rant was found guilty of discrimination by a tribunal.
In a ruling published last week, the Solicitor’s’ Disciplinary Tribunal in London fined Danielle Morris, 34, some $3,840 and ordered her to pay $8,060 in costs for the remarks, according to a report by the Lancashire Telegraph daily newspaper.
Her comments came after a Jewish man cut in line at a medical center before Morris, an assistant solicitor at Mulderiggs Solicitors in Rawtenstall near Manchester and mother of two.
Morris later commented to a receptionist at her firm “I cannot stand Jewish people.” The comment was heard by a Jewish colleague who asked her “not to say that.” But Morris replied: “I don’t care; I cannot stand them ever since an incident at the Bardoc (medical center).”
Morris’s lawyer said in her defense that she had “not been aware of the long history and persecution of the Jewish people and because of her age had had limited direct contact with those who had been familiar with the discovery of the Holocaust or the attitudes which had led to those events.”
The tribunal said that it heard that she now had a “greater understanding of the offense that she had caused and the context in which her remarks could be seen.”
I hope you appreciated this article. Before you go, I’d like to ask you to please support the Forward’s award-winning, nonprofit journalism during this critical time.
Now more than ever, American Jews need independent news they can trust, with reporting driven by truth, not ideology. We serve you, not any ideological agenda.
At a time when other newsrooms are closing or cutting back, the Forward has removed its paywall and invested additional resources to report on the ground from Israel and around the U.S. on the impact of the war, rising antisemitism and the protests on college campuses.
Readers like you make it all possible. Support our work by becoming a Forward Member and connect with our journalism and your community.
Make a gift of any size and become a Forward member today. You’ll support our mission to tell the American Jewish story fully and fairly.
— Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO
Join our mission to tell the Jewish story fully and fairly.
