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UK: Pavement justice: On-the-spot fines & the rule of law

17 May 2013

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"On-the-spot fines have become the ‘penalty of choice’ for a range of public bodies - including police forces fining people for criminal offences, schools fining children for truancy, or local authorities fining people for unlicensed leafleting or dropping a cigarette butt. This is a shady and lawless area, lying on the one hand between the formal system of criminal justice and the court trial, and on the other, between administrative penalties such as parking fines, which have their own forms of regulation and appeal. There is urgent need for reform."

Full article: (The Justice Gap, link)

See also: "Belgian ‘municipal fines’ cause growing dissent" article in new Statewatch Journal

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