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Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill

The Minister has said that people have to take a message from this Bill. Which youngster is ever going to pick up this Bill when it is enacted and say, ““Oh, I am in danger of not getting a conditional discharge unless I can come up with some exceptional circumstances””? The person whom the offender will be looking at is the magistrate or possibly the district judge—although we probably do not get into Crown Court territory here. The magistrate is the person who will give the message to the offender about what he has done and how he should behave, not a piece of legislation.