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Crime, punishment and parole

Rhondda Sweetman from Plimmerton Rotary

Sir Ron Young, Chairperson, NZ Parole Board.

Would you like to attend? Please see below. Due to unforeseen circumstances, this meeting has now been postponed until early in the New Year.

Sir Ron Young was appointed chairperson of the New Zealand Parole Board in August 2018. He has spent more than 27 years in the judiciary, 14 of those as a High Court Judge until he stepped down in 2015. He was Chief District Court Judge from 1993 until 2001, responsible for overseeing 112 judges from the criminal, civil, family and youth court jurisdictions nationwide and previously a member of the Chief Justice’s panel reviewing media televising, photographing and use of sound recording in court. Besides his role as Chairperson of the Parole Board, Sir Ron currently presides on the Courts of Appeal in Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and Pitcairn Islands.
In his talk Sir Ron will talk about the current statistics in crime and who are and for what are offenders punished for in New Zealand. Finally, he will discuss how parole works and why we should be bothered trying to rehabilitate offenders.
The evening starts at 6pm on Tuesday 28th
November, at the Mana Cruising Club.
The cost is $30 per person, including the dinner.
Would you like to attend this interesting evening? Please email: contactplimrotary@gmail.com or message me on: 0274912281
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this meeting has now been postponed until early in the New Year.

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