In message <[log in to unmask]>, at
15:45:22 on Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Kevin Broadfoot <[log in to unmask]>
writes
>I've noticed that an increasing number of organisations are using what
>appears to be a standardised Criminal Record Declaration Form,
>especially in the public sector. The first question asks whether an
>individual has "ever been found guilty by a court of any offence in any
>country (excluding parking but including all motoring offences even
>where a spot fine has been administered by the police)..
But doesn't the rehabilitation of offenders legislation allow the person
to (in effect) legitimately lie about this if their conviction is
"spent"?
>I thought that on the spot fines were civil penalties rather than
>the equivalent of a criminal conviction handed down by a court.
Very many of them are, and increasingly so. All part of the
"privatisation" of law enforcement.
--
Roland Perry
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