MEANING OF PROBATION.
NO LICENSE TO DO WRONG. ANOTHER JUDGE’S VIEWS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. Several prisoners appeared at the Supreme Court to-day for sentence before Mr. Justice Adams, and in granting probation to a forger Hia Honor took occasion to express his views on the meaning of probation, and in another case to refer incidentally to the Court of Appeal’s recent decision in regard to “the standard of punishment.” “The Court of Appeal.” said Hi« Honor, “did not in fact lay down any new principle; the application of the principle has been in practice for twenty years.” “Probation,” said Hia Honor at a later stage, “is not a license to do wrong, nor is it very desirable to differentiate it from punishment. In actual fact it is itself, in my judgment, a somewhat serious punishment. A prisoner on probation must understand that he must be exceedingly careful to comply implicitly with the directions of the probation officer and with the conditions laid down in the 1920 Act.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 August 1921, Page 4
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170MEANING OF PROBATION. Taranaki Daily News, 4 August 1921, Page 4
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