The Relevance of Remorse in the Criminal Justice System

Ex-convict could not be expected to show any honest remorse. Such a claimant would have all the more compelling need to see his prior conviction vanish into the past. Judges do feel that competent and qualified to be able to comment on and assess a degree of remorse, he says. "It's perhaps a slightly unfortunate importing of ideas from criminal law into what is a civil right"