NT: Lawyers demand govt reveal mandatory sentencing defence

AAP General News (Australia)
01-12-2001
NT: Lawyers demand govt reveal mandatory sentencing defence

Northern Territory lawyers want the federal government to reveal how it defends its
stance on mandatory sentencing.

Northern Territory Law Society president JON TIPPETT says the government has a responsibility
to reveal its position to the Australian public.

He says Australians have a right to know how the government wants to defend what he
calls the indefensible when it responds to a United …