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Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill

I am finding all this quite unbelievable. As my noble friend said earlier, we are not dealing with something like a stabbing, but with minor offences. As every other noble Lord has said, the magistrates already have discretion in this regard and they are the ones who have daily contact with the experts around the court and the offender. Surely we should be happy to leave the discretion to them and not impose further conditions that make it almost certain that we shall imprison more young offenders.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
699 c699 
Session
2007-08
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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