Give us a break….

Thursday 12 May 2005 at 11:56 pm | In News | 2 Comments

We are grateful to Lord Woolf who yesterday demanded a slow down in criminal legislation. Tony Blair’s government has created 1,018 new criminal offences since 1997, too much, Lord Woolf claimed, for the criminal justice system to absorb (law lecturers as well).
BBC news report here.

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  1. We need only look to the rather more disordered society in America to appreciate the wisdom of Lord Woolf’s admonition. In that lately benighted sphere, special interest groups can scarcely restrain themselves from one legislative session to the next in their mad rush to redefine many mundane acts as criminal offences.

    Another manifestation of this sort of hyperactivist posturing is seen in today’s pell-mell rush to reclassify many rather ordinary misdemeanors as felonies.

    Certainly, the liberal social activism which underlies much of this foolishness is seldom content to permit a measured, orderly development of the law. Such individuals wish, rather, to force their own sort of change ahead at flank speed. The effect on the law, and upon society at large, has never been their concern.

    Comment by James E. Weaver — Sunday 15 May 2005 8:06 pm #

  2. Brace yourself: the legislative programme for the next parliament will extend for 18 months; there is so much in it.

    Comment by MikeSouper — Sunday 15 May 2005 8:18 pm #

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