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About disqualification of offenders for holding elective offices as a result of intimidatory or abusive behaviour order
The Elections Bill introduces a new electoral sanction of a disqualification order imposed by the courts.
I must stress the importance of having free flight and being able to express hunting behaviour as of significant importance for the welfare of captive birds of prey.
A court must make the relevant order where the conditions are met and “it is reasonable to make that order” or the perpetrator has been convicted of an offence in the last 12 months relating to his abusive behaviour which is punishable by imprisonment.
A review on these grounds may also look at cases where an individual claims that a conviction when they were an adult related to offending behaviour when they were under 18 and should be treated as a childhood conviction.
Quite often, parents know that something has happened, because their child’s behaviour has changed significantly between their going to school in the morning and their coming home.
On the one hand, Governments and decision makers are always inclined to improve behaviour by regulating it further, but one of the risks of bringing more people into better regulation is that it can push bad behaviour further underground.
Even then, however, we were concerned about the lack of specificity on the behaviours that need to be changed and what good trauma-informed practice looks like.