The Telegraph is reporting "The £129,000-a-year judge and father of two has not been suspended, but he is not currently sitting as a senior circuit judge in Swansea, Cardiff and Carmarthen".
The BBC provides some clarity...
"Is prostitution illegal?
The law is complicated. The act of one consenting adult paying another for sex is NOT actually illegal. So, a woman who works on her own, in her own house and charges people for sex is NOT breaking the law.
But the laws that exist around it make it almost impossible to carry out prostitution legally...It's illegal to advertise for sexual services - though not to advertise massage or escort services like those in the papers and on the internet".
The disciplinary powers of the Lord Chancellor and Lord Chief Justice are contained in Chapter 3 section 108 of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005.
In my view, the charges against Judge Gerald Price QC are that he let his rent boy sit on the bench in court as he presided over trials, lied to court officials that he was a law student, and abused his position to help Williams beat a charge alleging an offence against public order.
