http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/30/magistrate-disciplined-refusing-hear-same-sex-parenting-case/
A magistrate who refused to sit on a same-sex parenting case has been given a formal warning for misconduct.
The Judicial Conduct Investigations Office said it had ordered Susan Preston to stand down from hearing future family cases after she “declined to adjudicate on a case... because of her personal views about same-sex couple parenting”.
The disciplinary action against Mrs Preston, who has been a magistrate in South Derbyshire for 16 years, follows the case of Richard Page, a Kent magistrate who was struck off last year for voicing opposition to same-sex adoption [11].
Read more [12].