Bystander I haven’t heard whether the smugly grinning fun-revolutionary who was arrested for wrecking the Boat Race has been charged with an offence. On the face of it, a Public Order Act Section 4 might be a runner (he has  cheerfully admitted planning and the intention of causing harassment alarm and distress). If he is  [ Read More ]

Lex Ferenda Over the last 50 years or so we have become victims of an experiment by liberal policy makers, exacerbated more lately by our attachment to Europe and the Human Rights Act. These naive policies, which have supposedly given individuals more freedoms, have in fact resulted in the majority having their freedoms eroded. In the case of crime, the  [ Read More ]

Bystander   The CPS are shortly to begin their new ‘paperless as far as the door of the court’ document handling system. I wish them well and hope that the widely expressed fear that this will be just another Government IT fiasco proves to be groundless. The gossip grapevine tells me that local solicitors are  [ Read More ]

James Manwaring This is the complete series of articles which detailed the basic idea behind the Rule of Law, and proposed the idea of a ‘timetable’ to explain the different components of the concept.    What is… the Rule of Law?   It’s a phrase you probably hear all the time. Used and abused consistently,  [ Read More ]

James Manwaring This is the fifth and final part of a 5 part series which details the basic idea behind the Rule of Law, and proposes the idea of a ‘timetable’ to explain the different components of the concept. Click for parts 1, 2, 3 and 4.   The Rule of Law as  a Spectrum  [ Read More ]

James Manwaring This is the fourth part of a 5 part series which details the basic idea behind the Rule of Law, and proposes the idea of a ‘timetable’ to explain the different components of the concept. Click for parts 1, 2 and 3.   The Rule of Good Law?   The previous section brings up  [ Read More ]

James Manwaring This is the third part of a 5 part series which details the basic idea behind the Rule of Law, and proposes the idea of a ‘timetable’ to explain the different components of the concept. Click for parts 1 and 2.   AWOL Bus Drivers and Application Standards   So what happens if  [ Read More ]

James Manwaring This is the second part of a 5 part series which details the basic idea behind the Rule of Law, and proposes the idea of a ‘timetable’ to explain the different components of the concept. Part 1 can be found here.   Recorded Law as Inner Standards That all seemed rather simplistic, no?  [ Read More ]