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Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

My Lords, does the noble Lord not think that the amendment clearly covers that case? It allows a short sentence to be imposed when there is no other appropriate way of dealing with the offender. If you have imposed a sentence and the offender has not complied with it, surely that is a classic example of a situation where there is no other appropriate method of dealing with the offender. I say that with diffidence because I appreciate how difficult it is for magistrates to deal with the sort of offender the noble Lord has just described.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
735 c165 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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