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Don’t cover up court failures by freeing convicts, SC tells courts

The Supreme Court has cautioned courts against suspending the sentences of people convicted of heinous offences merely because their appeals are unlikely to be heard in the near future, holding that the judiciary’s inability to decide cases quickly cannot become a reason to set convicted criminals free because such an approach puts the “life of civil society at peril” and exposes the “fault…

Don’t cover up court failures by freeing convicts, SC tells courts

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