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Cameron: Government and I specifically promised was that there should be no closures or reorganisations unless they had support

Fri, 02/08/2013 - 11:25am — Carol

So the Judiciary have noticed that the current government doesn't follow the law and doesn't keep its promises

Give the Devil the benefit of the law?

Wed, 24/07/2013 - 12:00pm — Carol

Robert Bolt:

Roper: So now you’d give the Devil benefit of law!

More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?

Roper: I’d cut down every law in England to do that!

More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ’round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country’s planted thick with laws from coast to coast– man’s laws, not God’s– and if you cut them down—and you’re just the man to do it—do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.

A Man for All Seasons

Thanks to http://www.ministryoftruth.me.uk/2013/07/24/cameron-porn-advisors-websit... for the reminder...

Last para of Entick v Carrington 1765… shows how jealous of our liberties we once were. Now we shrug shoulders at GCHQ

Sun, 23/06/2013 - 11:47pm — Carol
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/KB/1765/J98.html

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Wed, 23/11/2011 - 12:45am — Carol

More troubles for the IPCC

In breach of constitutional principle that access to justice is a right, and its absence "an enemy of the rule of law"

Tue, 22/11/2011 - 11:52pm — Carol

Thought the Guardian called it right again

  • Legal aid reform: poor law

    Editorial: change is never painless, but it needs tackling with a surgeon's scalpel, not the scythe that Ken Clarke has armed himself with

I particularly liked

Thoughtful contributions on alienation

Thu, 11/08/2011 - 3:25pm — Carol

So, in his testimony to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee Rupert Murdoch says:

Protecting the right to protest

Tue, 14/12/2010 - 11:20pm — Carol

Having been castigated for failing to uphold the right to peaceful protest at the G20 demonstrations, it seems the Met has learnt nothing, except that if you arrest people and take them to the police station there's a lot of paperwork and solicitors, whereas if you simply kettle people in a small area on a bridge you don't have to bother with any due process of law, provision of basic facilities, paperwork or bothersome solicitors and legal rights.

But then presumably the kettled protesters were particularly virulent and violent - the authors of this letter are

Rhodes professor of imperial history, Kings College London
Reader in international relations, University of Cambridge
Professor of history and public policy, University of Cambridge

How's that? Not violent protesters?  Surely the Met didn't make a mistake? Surely they ensured full compliance with the law

Letters: Tuition fee protest and human rights | UK news | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/dec/14...

Letters: No explanation was offered for what amounted to mass internment, in very dangerous circumstances, of a crowd of demonstrators

 

Bin Henry VIII clauses, Ken Clarke told The lord chief justice used the lord mayor's annual dinner to give Ken Clarke a firm t

Fri, 16/07/2010 - 8:43pm — Carol

Law

Bin Henry VIII clauses, Ken Clarke told

  • guardian.co.uk,
    Thursday July 15 2010
  • Joshua Rozenberg
Although the Lord Mayor's annual dinner for the judiciary looks like a
scene from a Savoy opera, nobody should be distracted by the
anachronistic pikemen and musketeers, by the strikingly tall city
marshal in his red and gold uniform or by the swordbearer wearing his
fur shtreimel.
In reality this is the judiciary's works outing. However magnificent
the Mansion House banquet m

(...)arcane but highly significant power that ministers are taking increasingly often. "Henry VIII clauses should be confined to the dustbin of history," the (...)

 

 


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