… Certainty and flexibility in law is without doubt a big and important topic. I believe that maintaining a reasonable balance between certainty and flexibility is a central aim of any legal system. My lecture is focused on the legal system in the UK, but I think that this is illustrative and I hope that what I say has a wider resonance. I begin by asking, why should we care about flexibility in the law? Isn’t the rule of law all about providing certainty for people who are transacting with each other? And doesn’t that logic carry across to public law as well? Through certainty in the law, the citizen is protected from capriciousness and abuse of power on the part of officials dealing with them … (more)
Lord Sales, ‘Certainty and Flexibility in the Law: Insights from English Law’ (Address to LLM Students, Cambridge University, 16 June 2025).
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