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One way out would be for local authorities to have good, structured guidance that sets out what they can do and which highlights best practice in other areas such as the Highlands.
One of our documents indicated that the rate was 56 per cent for probation and 40 per cent for community service and that 61 per cent of those discharged from custody were reconvicted. What might be the best way of dealing with that problem?
In addition, the importance of the issue from a human rights perspective would be better expressed in a direct right of appeal.The Mental Welfare Commission's best estimate is that, at any time over the past few years, about 30 patients could be considered to be entrapped.
Enforcing that on a day-to-day basis would be almost impractical. The officers must proceed on the best information that they have and, in the interests of justice, be as open and transparent as possible with the knowledge that they have at the time of making the application.If the officers were to proceed on a drugs search—that seems to be the subject just...
The people concerned were certainly not dead and were probably given a clear prognosis, but, in my judgment, they were not in the best health that they might have been in had they received the best service that they could have got.
Given those circumstances, we recognised that the Gatwick service was in danger of becoming dependent on what was in the best interests of the operator rather than on what was best for the wider community.