Judge Urges That “Cat” Be Abolished But Not Corporal Punishment
(N.Z.P.A.—Special Correspondent.) Reed 6 p.m. London. May 25. Lord Chief Justice 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 a birch. During a debate on the second reading of the Bill, Lord Goddard strongly advocated that the courts should retain a rigtit to order a whipping with the birch, and said his experience showed that this right would prove a most useful deterrent to certain types of crime. He added, however, hat 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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Wanganui Chronicle, 26 May 1948, Page 5
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