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Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill

The perennial problem with this type of order is that you create a personal criminal code for an individual. You say, ““You can't go into this street. You can't go into that park. You can't meet with X”” based on hearsay evidence and civil procedure. If he does go into the road or the pub or meet with someone else, then under these provisions it is a crime, just as it would be if he breached a condition of an ASBO. You are acting punitively. You are imposing criminal sanctions on a person for a breach of something that is not a crime for anyone else in the population. That is the problem. There is a real flaw in these orders.