Jacqueline Davies (21 May 1948 – 18 April 2019)[1][2] is a Circuit Judge, working in the North Eastern region of the UK.
!Chambers was appealing his conviction for "sending a public electronic message that was grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character contrary to the Communications Act 2003"[5] at Doncaster magistrates court[6] When Judge Davies heard the appeal in Doncaster Crown Court she judged that the tweet was "obviously menacing"[7] and that Chambers must have known that it might be taken seriously.
[9] Many members of Twitter registered their disapproval of the judgement, and Stephen Fry offered to pay the defendant's legal bill.
The 13 page judgment by Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge, stated:[10][11] We have concluded that, on an objective assessment, the decision of the Crown Court that this 'tweet' constituted or included a message of a menacing character was not open to it.
On this basis, the appeal against conviction must be allowed.Judge Davies was married to Judge Paul Clark who died on 7 October 2008 [12] In 2009 Judge Davies took part in a charity walk across the Sinai Desert in memory of her husband and to raise money for Prostate UK and Wellbeing of Women.