It was created around April 2018.
I am a criminal defence lawyer. A lot of my clients face criminal charges with respect to cannabis. One thing that you can tell is that I'm a relatively recently called lawyer. I haven't been practising for very long, but one thing that quite surprised me is that often when it comes to offences, people are less afraid of the actual sentence and more afraid of what it will do for them for the rest of their lives. That stunned me. I thought that you do your crime, you do your time and you move on. I found it particularly disheartening that people who were trying to get their lives back on track were essentially being sabotaged by a system of information disclosure that prevented them from getting jobs, getting volunteer placements or travelling, for example, because of the stigma attached to having previously committed a criminal offence.