Caution for assault ‘will one day be followed by murder’
Times Online (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
... “out-of-court” penalties that would specify what offences can be dealt with at what level. Lord Justice Leveson, who as Senior Presiding Judge is one of the most senior criminal judges in England and Wales, has expressed concern that “some diversions [from court] are inappropriate”. Magistrates, he told The Times, should be urged to “challenge chief officers of police” over the extent...


