{"id":1358,"date":"2024-04-10T09:25:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T09:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/?post_type=topic&#038;p=1358"},"modified":"2024-04-10T09:27:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T09:27:03","slug":"restrictions-on-punishment-of-young-offenders","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/topic\/our-legal-system\/juvenile-court\/restrictions-on-punishment-of-young-offenders\/","title":{"rendered":"Restrictions on punishment of young offenders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hklii.hk\/eng\/hk\/legis\/ord\/226\/s3f.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">section 3F<\/a>&nbsp;of the&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hklii.hk\/eng\/hk\/legis\/ord\/226\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Juvenile Offenders Ordinance<\/a>, when a juvenile has been convicted of any offence other than homicide in any other court, the court has a duty to remit the case to a juvenile court for sentencing unless it is undesirable to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A juvenile may have been tried at another court if he or she was charged jointly with a person who is 16 years of age or above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On remission to the juvenile court, the court will deal with the case as if the juvenile had been convicted at the juvenile court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to&nbsp;section 3F&nbsp;of the&nbsp;Juvenile Offenders Ordinance, when a juvenile has been convicted of any offence other than homicide in any other court, the court has a duty to remit the case to a juvenile court for sentencing unless it is undesirable to do so. A juvenile may have been tried at another court if he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","topic-type":[33,22],"class_list":["post-1358","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-type-juvenile-court","topic-type-our-legal-system"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/1358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic-type?post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}