“Wrapped up in its spangled cape awaiting Royal Assent as we go to press is the excitingly named Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Bill. By day a mild five-clause Bill that modestly hides its light under a long title and proclaims to the world that it is merely a Bill ‘to make provision as to matters to which a court must have regard in determining a claim in negligence or breach of statutory duty’. By night, however, this super-Bill goes out to solve the world’s problems by the use of its short, sharp, punchy, laser-powered clauses, each of which in a single sentence jabs the stuffing out of all the evil lawyers, insurance companies, and other baddies that make the world the rotten place it is. Amusing enough in a comic aimed at the under-10s, this becomes less amusing when presented to the citizens and courts of the United Kingdom as serious legislation …” (more)
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‘Is It a Bird? Is It a Plane? Well It Certainly Isn’t Legislation’ – Editorial, Statute Law Review (2015) 36(1): v-vi. doi: 10.1093/slr/hmv006.
First posted 2015-03-16 09:03:28
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