Lashley warns child protection legislation will put pressure on social services

Community Legal Services Act to give legal aid when a person is charged or before the court and during their interrogation. Agreeing with the Government’s intention to introduce a parole system, he said people deserved “a second chance”. “I believe that we should seek to rehabilitate first-time offenders. I believe that by now, we should have a secondary institution to assist those first-time offenders rather than putting them up at Dodds to rub shoulders with hardened criminals,” the defence lawyer added. (JB)]]>