6.3 Adjudication and Disposition of Juvenile Delinquency Cases

The adjudication's architecture: the juvenile court (the Children's Act 2075's Section 30 command — the Gazette-noticed courts) with, until their full establishment, the juvenile bench in every district court — the district judge with the social-service provider and the child psychologist/child-specialist (the multidisciplinary bench — the 2063 Rules' design continued); the mixed-case rule (the child-with-adult case to the regular court); the closed proceeding (no public, no media, the identity's protection); the child-sized procedure (the simple language, the parent's presence, the right to be heard — the participation principle); the social study report's centrepiece role (the family-school-circumstance investigation — the disposition's evidence); and the disposition menu (the juvenile's "sentence"): admonition-and-warning; release on guarantee (the parent's-or-guardian's undertaking); care-and-supervision orders (the parents, the relatives, the child-care home); compensation-and-restitution orders where appropriate; the correction- home commitment (the custody of last resort, for the shortest time); and the bars — no capital, no life-without-release, no adult prison, the reduced ladder of the age-bands. The Supreme Court's supervision of the system's compliance (the cases below).