Legal view that LNP proposal would also be contrary to UN convention on child rights comes after party announces policy of ‘adult crime, adult time’
Queensland opposition leader David Crisafulli says the LNP’s new ‘adult crime, adult time’ policy would act as a deterrent by subjecting children to potentially much longer jail sentences for crimes including murder.Queensland opposition leader David Crisafulli says the LNP’s new ‘adult crime, adult time’ policy would act as a deterrent by subjecting children to potentially much longer jail sentences for crimes including murder.
The Queensland Council of Civil Liberties president, Michael Cope, said the concept of “adult time for adult crime” appeared to be a direct rejection of section 33 of the state Human Rights Act. The Law Society president, Rebecca Fogerty, said it was the requirement for child murderers to be sentenced under the criminal code, like adults, that was most likely to contradict the Human Rights Act.
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