19 May 2020 1 Min Read

Don't pay a lockdown admission of guilt fine: lawyers

in News / South Africa by Orrin Singh and Tania Broughton
Admission of guilt payments made by anyone who breaks lockdown rules will leave a criminal record.
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Magistrates, attorneys and advocates say many, if not most, apparently trivial charges emanating from lockdown arrests will not stick in court.

But if you pay a fine you will have a criminal record.

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