Great trailer for the story. The sad thing is that there's a huge amount of corruption at the top. The recent NatWest saga and BBC Jim'll Fix It aka Panorama News investigation round-turn is proof of that.
The main issue as you say is the law in a "democracy", something invented for the rich and powerful to oppress the poor. If you speed or take drugs and are rich, you can hire Mr Loophole or some criminal law barrister to cast doubt on the evidence. Your speedo may have been miscalibrated by a speed bump you went over too fast (or whatever), or someone must have laced your pie with coke without your knowledge. Of course you can't plead ignorance of the millions of laws which you must follow, but you can plead ignorance that you knowingly broke them. There are so many laws nobody can know them all, this being so for good legal business, as Dickens said: "The one great principle of the English law is to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings."
Great trailer for the story. The sad thing is that there's a huge amount of corruption at the top. The recent NatWest saga and BBC Jim'll Fix It aka Panorama News investigation round-turn is proof of that.
The main issue as you say is the law in a "democracy", something invented for the rich and powerful to oppress the poor. If you speed or take drugs and are rich, you can hire Mr Loophole or some criminal law barrister to cast doubt on the evidence. Your speedo may have been miscalibrated by a speed bump you went over too fast (or whatever), or someone must have laced your pie with coke without your knowledge. Of course you can't plead ignorance of the millions of laws which you must follow, but you can plead ignorance that you knowingly broke them. There are so many laws nobody can know them all, this being so for good legal business, as Dickens said: "The one great principle of the English law is to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings."