MAGISTRATE RIGHT – a letter by Ingo Wagenknecht

Source: Cambridge Evening News
Date: April 18 2007
Author: Ingo Wagenknecht

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CAMBRIDGESHIRE magistrate Alan Williams was right to refuse the fine levied indiscriminately against the accused, now charged in any offence which results in a fine. If victims are to be compensated, the receipts from criminals and their assets, are a legitimate, already established measure of doing so.

This Government wheeze is indiscriminate revenue raising and I urge everyone who is dragged to court for supplying him/herself with cannabis to ask who the victim is. If that question is not answered by the police or the court magistrates, payment of this fine should be refused.

Whatever next?

Ingo Wagenknecht
Rockland St Mary
Norfolk

Ref: Magistrates brand new fine surcharge immoral
http://ccguide.org/news/shownewsarticle.php?articleid=12430

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