Stephen Woodworth at the Justice and Human Rights Committee

I fully respect as a democratic matter your right to disagree with the legislation, but I'm glad you are not suggesting that there is some divine right of judges not to have their discretion fettered by the legislature.

I have one other question. Do you understand that the provision in the act for prohibition orders is not necessarily going to result in prohibition orders that are as time-limited as probation orders, that in fact it is probably intended to result in prohibition orders that might exceed the length of probation orders, and that therefore there is a purpose in separating it from probation orders? Does that seem clear?