Apollo wrote:Just because you turned 18 doesn't negate criminal history prior in my view. Depends on your own personal history and usually if you have run foul of the law it carries for 5-7 years.
Not having a go here, but what does
your view have to do with anything?
As it stands (in QLD I'm certain, and as far as I know this is the same for all other states) if you're found guilty of a crime but no conviction is recorded as a juvenile, this can't be taken into account during any future proceedings against you as an adult (if there were to be any). For all intents and purposes you do not have a criminal record.
If as an adult you're asked do you have a conviction or criminal record 'no' is the honest answer.
Convictions can be recorded for juveniles and considered in future, but this is only done for serious crimes. The crimes I've read on in published sentencing statistics where a conviction was recorded against a juvenile were for things like attempted murder and aggravated assault.
If the women told him "just fill it out and send it back to us and it'll be fine" she obviously doesn't think it's that serious.
In any case, when you do a QLD license application it asks if you've ever been charged with an offence, even if you weren't convicted, so the situation is addressed there without getting caught up in any technicalities or loop holes.
Just saying 'your view' isn't helping OP and probably just causing undue stress talking about lawyers etc. You didn't even ask what the offence was. Could for be doing a whiz in the park for all we know.
I know it sounds like I'm having a go but honestly I'm not, just trying to be clear.
If he was a juvenile and the offence wasn't serious I expect he'll get his license.
Peace.
