LAW REVIEW ARTICLE

THE ENGLISH LEGAL SYSTEM

Before one considers what laws are and how they are introduced into a society or a circumstance, it is necessary to consider… WHY WE HAVE LAWPeople’s behaviour, sometimes, may lead to generally undesirable outcomes, injurious to one or more others physically or as repugnant. People have sought to establish some rules, to enable the smooth functioning of the societies in which they live, of a kind that themselves can sanction to avoid chaos.

WHAT ARE LAWS

The set of rules that regulate behaviour are laws; and those that regulate human behavior in ways that they can be legally sanctioned if breached are men’s Legal Laws.What the should be the basis of such rules, the extent of the limitations on man’s actions, who and how should decide and organize them, apply the sanctions -with what safeguards against injustice and as defined by whom and how, and the growth of society -necessitating variations of them, and other such considerations, are essentially, also part of Law. There has been the Authoritarian View -that law’s intention should be to prevent wickedness, and the moral welfare of the society; and there has been the Libertarian View -that private morality and immorality is one’s own business and not of law: e.g., the Misrepresentations Act 1967. Read the rest of this entry »