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Our head office is located on the lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. Your cart Close. Books Constance Briscoe Ugly. Download Image Download Image. But the young Briscoe, daughter of black and mixed-race parents, struggled with her self-image. As soon as she could afford it, aged 22, she went to see a cosmetic surgeon about altering her appearance. The year-old has since spent thousands making her nose less pronounced, her mouth smaller, even her feet narrower.

She blamed her mother, Carmen Briscoe-Mitchell, for her unhappiness who for years, she said, had abused her physically and emotionally. Briscoe documented the disturbing allegations in an explosive curtly-titled memoir, Ugly.

The book became a UK bestseller and thrust her into the public eye. It would also split the family and see mother and daughter meet in court when Mrs Briscoe-Mitchell sued for libel. Whatever the truth, Briscoe's childhood shaped the adult she would become.

But her mother Carmen rejects the barrister's abuse claims - and has very different recollections of her daughter's formative years. Mrs Briscoe-Mitchell has spoken of a tough life trying to raise 11 children with her rarely-present husband George Briscoe. Supported by some of her other children, Mrs Briscoe-Mitchell sued her high-flying daughter over the book's "lies". Briscoe thought she could lose and, fearing the end of her legal career, says she had made plans to move to France with her then partner Anthony Arlidge QC - who would later play a part in her eventual downfall.

She convinced the jury her claims were "substantially true". Briscoe had apparently developed her legal skills at an early age; as a teenager she reportedly took out a successful private prosecution against her stepfather for assault. It said in a statement : "Miss Constance Briscoe, a recorder and fee-paid tribunal judge of the first-tier health, education and social care chamber, has been removed from judicial office without further investigation by the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice following her conviction and sentence for perverting the course of justice.

Briscoe, who was one of Britain's first black female judges, was convicted of three counts of intending to pervert the course of justice at the Old Bailey in May. The conviction related to her role in liaising with the press over Huhne and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce's speeding points case. Both Huhne and Pryce were jailed for eight months after it emerged he passed his speeding points to her.

Both served two months.