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AAP General News (Australia)

02-04-2000

WA: Mandatory sentencing principle wrong: top WA judge

PERTH, Feb 4 AAP - Mandatory sentencing had its place in exceptional circumstances
but the adoption of such sentencing as a general principle was wrong, Western Australia's
most senior judge said today.

Justice David Malcolm, the chief justice of the WA Supreme Court, was speaking following
Senate legal and constitutional committee hearings ...

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