Many Judges are out of touch, and the frequent news items or just putting "judge lets off ...." into google will throw up many sentencing/acquittal decisions which defy common sense.
Countering my expectation of many stories of farting judges, the first two are reports from The Sun 'newspaper', and I was so bored by the many more huge wadges of hearsay that I couldn't reach the third page of Google results, which no doubt contains the reams of cases that you're referring to.
Maybe you could save me the effort and list
just two judges whose non-custodial sentences you believe to have been grossly wrong.
Yes sometimes there are sentencing restrictions, but most times its the judges decisions which are questionalble
Saying that a decision is questionable doens't make it so. You need an understanding of the decision and some grounds for believing it to be wrong. I hereby accuse you of having neither.
The current government is one of, if not the most legislative governments ever. They have meddled in all areas of society and tried to bring in laws to control problems which don't exist, or problems which don't have a solution in legislature - mainly social issues.
Do you have an example of
just one such law or act of meddling?
All this new legislation has just created more bureaucracy and confusion into the system, so that its difficult to understand what law is what and therefore to make justice harder to prevail.
What in the blue blazes are you on about? Which laws do you find indistiguishable from each other?
Then we have the knee-jerk terrorism laws which are used to remove old men heckling at labour conferences, or extraditing people for fraud offences.
And then we have the knee-jerk use of the term "knee-jerk", rolled out whenever a new law is passed to counter some new-age act of social depravity.
This government sees legislation as the answer to all our problems, and it is creating a powerbase for the state to use against the people as it sees fit (Police state), or it means that justice is only available to those who can afford it - and bend it to suit their own objectives (big business)
I wish I'd read this last parapraph first, because the terms "the state", "the people", "Police state", "powerbase", "big business", betray a child-like perception of how the country is governed, and I really needn't have bothered to write a response at all.
