I can’t stand the MOJ calling it “supervised discharge” because that’s the old, repealed s25A provision. The alternatives aren’t as catchy – “conditional discharge with a deprivation of liberty”, “CD (Dep)”, “deprivation of liberty conditional discharge”, “DOL CD” etc – the Devil has all the best tunes.
Let’s all agree on “supervised conditional discharge” instead, as the best of both worlds
I’ve just checked and there are two uses of it on the internet so far. One is by an MP in a Commons debate, and the other’s a law firm’s web page (which also uses “supervised discharge”).
Supervised conditional discharge gets my vote, to be fair - best one so far that actually helps us explain what it is AND relates it to conditional discharge, but with a distinction that means we know it’s different.
I suspect that most people don’t remember what supervised discharge was. The new terminology is ridiculous but supervised conditional discharge at least makes some sense
It’s the same as them inventing ‘assertive outreach teams’ and claiming they are a new innovation when we had them years ago
However, the MOJ either knows it is ‘God’ or behaves like ‘God’. When you have power - you don’t need to care what anyone else below you in thinks, or says. Why? There is no consequence.
But absurdity is the hallmark of power. In another situation products that are used for vaping such as coils - are labelled as ‘Contains nicotine’ when there is no hope in hell of finding nicotine in such things. Oh yes - you read that right, in case you are ‘not a vaper’ and couldn’t care less about patients who do vape. Somebody is about to ask me ‘Is that a personal thing? Or does this have anything to do with patients?’
