Who needs courts anyway?

Bad people often go to court and sometimes they are acquitted. Regrettable as this is, those are the rules — and if we didn’t have those rules, well, consider how small a step it would be for the unrestrained boot to begin kicking in doors at midnight. In NSW, or so one gathers from the Crimes (Serious Crimes Prevention Orders) Bill 2016, such a prospect seems no longer to count for very much. From the Bill’s explanatory notes (emphasis added):

The term serious crime related activity is defined to mean anything done by a person that is or
was at the time a serious criminal offence, whether or not:
(a) the person has been charged with the offence, or
(b) if charged, the person:
(i) has been tried, or
(ii) has been tried and acquitted, or
(iii) has been convicted (even if the conviction has been quashed or set aside).

(h/t poster Dot at Catallaxy Files)

The Bill can be read in full via the link below.

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