Environment Agency Appeal

A little naive of me perhaps (though I doubt it), but it's beginning to look as if the law is being amended, or created in the courts, with parliament taking second place. Excuse my language, but this is all getting very fuckin stupid.

Thanks for taking your time to update this.

All very well, and in my later years I am learning, "money" actually can buy what you want. Let's just do what the French did, build bloody guillotines and have a revolution.

Without detracting from the truth that this is all too often how things work - with those able to afford the best reps being the inevitable winners - as I commented on CWDF, the comments made by the judges yesterday did in fact describe the optimal situation respecting the role of judges in the construing of Parliamentary Acts. Theirs is the responsibility for determining [in theory] exactly what the people wanted [through their elected reps] when passing legislation affecting them.


Looked at in that way, they were right that their role should not be confined to that of referees in a duel between a pair of barristers, nor limited to such material as either of them came up with. Otherwise, that would mean [and sadly often does] that the administration of law was dependent solely on the calibre of competing counsel. It is in those situations that the most money buys the result.


Those situations are less likely to happen the higher up the judicial ladder you climb, which is one of the reasons why I have always favoured bypassing the County Courts where possible. It is cheaper in the long run.


As to revolution, as constitutional commentators have written, we tend to end up getting the style of government that suits our temperament/ that we deserve. I am sure the Napoleonic Code is a fine thing, but from the little I have heard of the administration of French justice, I woud prefer ours on the whole.