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Short Cuts: Irvine urges tough line over assaults on staff

1998-06-25T00:00:00

The Lord Chancellor has urged magistrates to get tough on offenders who attack health workers. Sentences should 'act as a deterrent', he told a magistrates' conference last week.

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