Police and Justice Bill

The noble Lord, Lord Hylton, is right. Of course, there is the possibility of recourse to a court, as there would be here. If you do not accept a fixed penalty notice put to you by the police, for whatever reason, you can go to court. If you do not like the conditional cautions being offered to you by a prosecutor, you can go to court. The court remains at the apex of this system and in overall control of it. I certainly take on board what the right reverend Prelate said about the term ““administrative punishment”” and I will consider it. It is not a term that I use. People say to me that ““conditional caution”” is not exactly a catchy phrase either, so perhaps we need to think generally about them.