Danielle Morris, 34, made the comments in the Rossendale practice after a Jewish man cut the queue at a medical centre while she was waiting to take one of her children to see a doctor, reports the Daily Mail.
After making the comments, a Jewish cashier replied: ‘please do not say that,’ to which Mrs Morris responded: ‘I don’t care. I can’t stand them.’
Religious claim
The cashier left the firm three months after the 2009 incident, and then brought a racial and religious claim against Mrs Morris and the practice and won an undisclosed sum in damages.
Following a further complaint by the cashier, Mrs Morris was also grilled by the Solicitor’s Regulation Authority.
With the case made public for the first time, the Mail reports that Mrs Morris - who now works two days a week at another law firm - has been fined £2,500 and ordered to pay £5,250 in costs following a hearing in London.
'Foolishness and ignorance'
The report also suggests her legal costs were around the £1,000 mark, but the incident cost in total tens of thousands of pounds in further solicitors' costs and compensation.
Mrs Morris’ lawyer Gareth Edwards later admitted it was an 'unintentionally discriminatory remark which arose from foolishness and ignorance, not wickedness’, adding that his client had 'not been aware' of the long history of the persecution of Jewish people.
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