Please note that the post below was published more than ten year ago on 21st November 2009 Nick Herbert MP, shadow cabinet member for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, was in Cumbria this morning to see the areas affected by the flooding. He writes on Conservative Home about his visit. Here is an extract. I’ve been in Cumbria today to see the areas affected by the floods. I arrived early in Keswick where I met officials from the Environment Agency. Although the river levels had fallen considerably and homes were no longer flooded, the damage to homes had been done. And the water which had got into houses wasn’t just from the river – it was foul water which had risen from the drains. I talked to fire crews who were pumping flood water back into the river, and discovered that they were from Tyne & Wear and Lancashire. They had been called in at an hours’ notice and had been working on the scene ever since, staying at a local hotel. You cannot fail to be impressed by the
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It seems not to apply in courts here or UK PLC courts at least. But then these are places that use the law of the sea (Legislation, which of course requires consent, those for example who would "fine" you for not paying things like your council tax or a parking ticket.
It does however apply in the crown courts of the criminal justice system, so long of course as you don't "understand" your new "rights", better referred to as granted privileges. much better to "overstand" those and keep the unalienable rights which were not granted to you by anyone but which were recognised by the crown and the law in that very document on 15th day of June 1215.
In a real court like that if you have broken the LAW, you are pretty much nicked.
If you have not but have broken legislation then actually you can't pay for it, only your person can, and oddly enough you are not actually a PERSON, only your fictional person is, you are a man or a woman (anonymous does not give me much of a clue there)
I take the point made by the anonymous poster that at least the German system is open about being bought off, but IMHO it is a good thing that at least the English legal system tries to operate on the principles of Magna Carta - even if it does not always succeed.