Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill

Like the noble and learned Lord and the noble Lord, Lord West, I trust the good judgment of magistrates. However, if we were to follow the route suggested by this amendment, we could end up with far more cases coming before the court that presented an argument for an anti-social behaviour order to be made. We could trigger a situation where a succession of anti-social behaviour orders would need to be made to affect the anti-social behaviour that we were trying to deal with. I am not sure that that would be a particularly good use of court time. The courts would be repeatedly seeing the same individual, whereas the interventions that are required to try to prevent the anti-social behaviour—the monitoring, the working with, the use of the ISOs and so on—could be interrupted by a succession of appearances before magistrates that were unnecessary in the circumstances.