A Pontypridd judge is to retire, amid allegations about his conduct being considered by the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office.
District Judge John Michael Doel, 65, was admitted as a Solicitor in 1974 and appointed a Deputy District Judge in 1991, becoming a Legal Member of the Mental Health Review Tribunal in 1995 and a District Judge in 2000.
RETIRED: District Judge John Michael Doel retired from the Bench amid allegations of misconduct.
In 2002 a police investigation was launched following allegations John Doel, then sitting at Blackwood County Court, provoked a party to bankruptcy proceedings, by allegedly refusing to read his papers.
John Doel has been under investigation by the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office for similar allegations that he behaved inappropriately towards a disabled man, including by calling the man’s court papers – submitted in an accessible format – a “PowerPoint Presentation gone wrong.”