Where a sentencing court makes orders against a juvenile offender that fall within the range permitted by s 120(1)(f)(ii) of the Juvenile Justice Act 1992 (Qld) (detention for less than two years with or without an immediate release order), the court should be taken to have proceeded under s 120 rather than s 121, even where the offence is a serious life offence. The recording of convictions is therefore discretionary under s 124(3), not automatic under s 124(4). The prima facie position under s 124(1) is that convictions are not to be recorded against child offenders, and the youth of the offender weighs heavily against recording even for very serious offences.
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