I could not pass up this Halloween time without touching upon at least one spooky subject and how the law relates to it. In the past Francisco has covered unusual laws pertaining to Halloween, David has posted about punishing rebellious children and witches, Kelly has taken us on a journey through time and told us …
Abolishing ancient laws in England is often no easy task. A significant degree of research is involved before these laws are amended or abolished. The research has to be particularly thorough to avoid one of the oldest – that of unintended consequences. The issue of thoroughly researching laws was demonstrated several years ago when the government was …