A complaint was made by a member of the public that Adrian Kermode had liked a posted in August 2025 on LinkedIn and his actions were in breach of the standards of conduct expected of judicial office-holders.
Kermode accepted responsibility and apologised. A spokesperson for the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office said Kermode took ‘prompt action to delete the like and gave assurances as to his future conduct’.
However the JCIO said the magistrate’s actions ‘risked undermining public confidence in his impartiality and had reputational implications for the magistracy’. It added: ‘The declaration and undertaking signed by all magistrates on their appointment states that they will maintain the good reputation of the magistracy at all times, in their private, working, and public lives.