Trundlebug
Well-Known Member
Too Many Laws, Not Enough Justice
The simple fact is that our "legal" system is just that, it's not a justice system any more.
It's run by, and for the sole benefit of the interested parties involved i.e. the solicitors, barristers, judges, and politicians who just perpetuate the moneymaking merry-go-round for their own ends. Any thought, or outcome which benefits the victim is entirely co-incidental; victims are necessary in order to have a nice expensive process to follow.
Every time anything goes wrong the politicians just make yet another law to add to the thousands of volumes already in existence; no wonder the police get confused. Armies of fancy legal experts then have to be employed to interpret, reassess and quote legal speak which then has to be re-interpreted into English. See what I mean about a gravy train? Where is the victim in all of this? Not even mentioned; a by-product, an afterthought, very much secondary to the core issue, the thing that really matters: our fabulous legal profession.
What's needed is a complete re-think from scratch, based on certain key principles and aims. The we might start to get a justice system with justice and victims rights at the heart of it.
Rant over, I feel better now
The simple fact is that our "legal" system is just that, it's not a justice system any more.
It's run by, and for the sole benefit of the interested parties involved i.e. the solicitors, barristers, judges, and politicians who just perpetuate the moneymaking merry-go-round for their own ends. Any thought, or outcome which benefits the victim is entirely co-incidental; victims are necessary in order to have a nice expensive process to follow.
Every time anything goes wrong the politicians just make yet another law to add to the thousands of volumes already in existence; no wonder the police get confused. Armies of fancy legal experts then have to be employed to interpret, reassess and quote legal speak which then has to be re-interpreted into English. See what I mean about a gravy train? Where is the victim in all of this? Not even mentioned; a by-product, an afterthought, very much secondary to the core issue, the thing that really matters: our fabulous legal profession.
What's needed is a complete re-think from scratch, based on certain key principles and aims. The we might start to get a justice system with justice and victims rights at the heart of it.
Rant over, I feel better now