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 ]

Lex Ferenda One MP has woken up, but the other 649 are still taking their sleeping tablets. Tory MP for Shipley, Philip Davies has been asking a lot of questions regarding sentencing of persistent offenders. Despite what I and other bloggers have been saying for ages, he has been shocked by some of the answers he  [ Read More ]

Lex Ferenda I can’t help watching cop programs on the TV. My favourite is Police Interceptors. Mostly, the officers are highly motivated and they know the law and arrest lots of bad guys, and that is how it should be. I get depressed when I see what the rest of the justice system does with  [ Read More ]

Lex Ferenda We heard this week that two of the three members of the community reference group who are giving advice to the IPCC regarding the police shooting of Mark Duggan, have resigned. One of them, Stafford Scott, has stated that he no longer wishes to be associated with the investigation, which he describes as shoddy and flawed. It  [ Read More ]

Lex Ferenda I went to Dale Farm weeks ago now and was sent home as a learned judge decided that he wanted more time to consider the case of the travellers before he confirmed the eviction could go ahead. When the eviction eventually took place I was away on holiday. I saw on the news  [ Read More ]

Lex Ferenda She hasn’t resigned yet, but we have had this one for 18 months now, it must be time for a change. I posted recently about the complete ineptitude of the UK Border Agency and how people are coming to this country every day clearly intending to stay or work. The recent furore about  [ Read More ]

Lex Ferenda I have been away and visited a number of countries where the attitude to alcohol is far different from that at home. I have touched on this subject before and it seems obvious to me that this is one area where the police and local authorities are failing miserably in applying the law.  [ Read More ]

Lex Ferenda I have had a couple of experiences recently with the UK Border Agency or Immigration Department as they used to be known. My experience confirms that our country’s border controls are nothing short of a joke. There is little control over immigration and there is systematic abuse of our laws which we seem  [ Read More ]