Barrister Constance Briscoe has been jailed for 16 months for lying to police in ex-cabinet minister Chris Huhne's speeding points case.Sentencing at the Old Bailey, the judge said Briscoe had "considered respect for the law was for others".
He described the conviction as a "personal tragedy" for the 56-year-old.
Briscoe, a part-time judge, was convicted of three counts of intending to pervert the course of justice related to the probe into Huhne.
The sentence is double the eight months that Huhne and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce each received for the original offence in which his speeding points were taken by her.
Briscoe, of Clapham, south London, had denied the charges against her.
Jailing Briscoe, judge Mr Justice Baker said the conviction would have a "devastating effect" on her career.
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