Consent orders are like the curate egg - good in parts. To the extent that they bring closure to cases that would otherwise meander through the judicial maze for months, if not years, consent orders are good. They offer a pragmatic way of penalising-and-yetnot-quite-punishing offenders against whom it is hard to prove definite violations in our kind of system of Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence that goes by the maxim, 'innocenttill-proven-guilty.