Judge criticises council over £50,000 case
Council bosses who spent more than £50,000 investigating and prosecuting a couple who ran a dirty Chinese restaurant were today grilled by a judge.
Norwich Crown Court heard that King's Lynn and West Norfolk Borough Council spent nearly £30,000 of those costs on a barrister.
Judge Peter Jacobs said the inquiry into the Szechuan Inn Restaurant in Downham Market, Norfolk, was not "complicated" and such costs were "not in tune" with the public mood - especially in the wake of Tuesday's Budget statement by the Government.
Yoonh Wong, 31, and Elsie Ong, 28, who ran the restaurant, had admitted a string of hygiene offences after council environmental health officers found rat droppings, the court heard.
They are due to be sentenced at a later hearing.
A mixture of law, politics, autobiography and humour. Once described as "The Devilish Advocate" (Guardian), I do have the ability to provoke a response. Sometimes it comes from someone who uses a thought process, and sometimes from jerks usually associated with the knee.
Slippery handshake merchants circle by any chance down there?
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