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Barrister jailed for attempting to pervert the course of justice

Barrister Bruce Hyman became the first barrister ever to be jailed for perverting the course of justice.   It was revealed at Bristol Crown Court that Hyman was representing a wife in a child custody battle and tried to discredit the father Dr Simon Eades, a Wall Street banker by writing a fictitious precedent. He emailed the ‘precedent’ to the father together with a fictitious note of support from the pressure group Families Need Fathers. Dr Eades then used the ‘precedent’ in court in support of his case, Hyman denounced it as a forgery, which of course it was.

The father faced jail and the loss of his child but he found that email had been sent from an internet shop in Tottenham Court Road and obtained CCTV pictures of Hyman.