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Former Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont has said the judge who oversaw the Sandie Peggie hearing made errors and used excuses that would not be deemed acceptable in a school classroom. A complaint of judicial misconduct was filed against Judge Alexander Kemp after he issued 12 corrections to his ruling in the high-profile employment tribunal. Kemp was later cleared, with Judge Susan Walker concluding that the errors were not caused by AI but stemmed from correspondence with an unnamed judicial colleague. But Lamont criticised Kemp for failing to take responsibility, comparing his excuses to those of a schoolchild, and argued that both the judge's and the judicial system's reputations were damaged. Other commentators, including Conservative MSP Murdo Fraser and Oxford law professor Michael Foran, expressed concern over the number of errors and the use of seemingly fabricated quotations.
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