When a juvenile offender's prospects of rehabilitation are poor, the risk that recording a conviction might prejudice future employment or career prospects diminishes, and the balance turns in favour of recording a conviction. R v PBE [2019] QCA 185 does not establish a general principle but dealt with a particular error where the sentencing judge wrongly treated the imposition of detention as itself militating in favour of recording a conviction.
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