ABOLITION OF “ CAT ”
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE'S MOVE BRITAIN’S CRIMINAL BILL N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent Rec. 9 p.m. LONDON, May 25. The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Goddard, has tabled in the House of Lords a series of amendments to the Criminal Justice Bill. One of these seeks to abolish the use of the cat-o’-nine-tails, but to retain corporal punishment with the birch. During the debate on the second reading of the Bill Lord Goddard strongly advocated that the courts should retain the right to order a whipping with the birch, and he said that his expereince had showed that this right would prove a most useful deterrent to certain types of crime. He added, however, that there was undoubtedly an element of brutality in the use of the “ cat,” and said that every judge on the Bench would welcome its abolition.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26781, 26 May 1948, Page 5
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