*Principles of the rules based order are being eroded by those who see Hamas and Israel as morally equivalent* is David Wolfson’s starting point but if Israel is found to have committed crimes against international law that will have consequences for businesses who have/want to invest in the UK. The Rule of law is a double edged sword at its best… any UK citizens who go to fight (or have loved ones who do) for the IDF should be mindful of the Begum case before they pray in aid *moral equivalence*… especially if efforts to remove *jury equity* are successful. Those who live by the sword…
If there were to be a very short short list of “musts” for school curricula, an understanding of the vital requirement of an irreducible application of the rule of law together with its twin enabler due process should be, to employ Lord Hermer’s phrase, our lodestar. Study leading outwards from that pivotal concept and commitment of, for example, our constitution and the principle - however significant the exceptions- of the separation of the powers should then follow as night follows day. AND: such areas of essential awareness should be inculcated from a very early stage in the education arc and onwards. Come to that, I have frequently been provoked into remarking of a number of governments that they seemed incapable EVEN of SPELLING “rule of law” and “due process”, where therein lie the bedrock which separates our administration from autocratic nations around the globe.
*Principles of the rules based order are being eroded by those who see Hamas and Israel as morally equivalent* is David Wolfson’s starting point but if Israel is found to have committed crimes against international law that will have consequences for businesses who have/want to invest in the UK. The Rule of law is a double edged sword at its best… any UK citizens who go to fight (or have loved ones who do) for the IDF should be mindful of the Begum case before they pray in aid *moral equivalence*… especially if efforts to remove *jury equity* are successful. Those who live by the sword…
If there were to be a very short short list of “musts” for school curricula, an understanding of the vital requirement of an irreducible application of the rule of law together with its twin enabler due process should be, to employ Lord Hermer’s phrase, our lodestar. Study leading outwards from that pivotal concept and commitment of, for example, our constitution and the principle - however significant the exceptions- of the separation of the powers should then follow as night follows day. AND: such areas of essential awareness should be inculcated from a very early stage in the education arc and onwards. Come to that, I have frequently been provoked into remarking of a number of governments that they seemed incapable EVEN of SPELLING “rule of law” and “due process”, where therein lie the bedrock which separates our administration from autocratic nations around the globe.