Manneken Press

marți, 20 martie 2012

The Rule of Law, By Tom Bingham

A consummately entertaining summation of our legal system by a former Lord Chief

He proposes eight essential principles, each of which he illustrates with a wide variety of examples.

The first is that the law must be available to everyone and, so far as possible, intelligible and clear. But he admits that sometimes the search for clarity can go too far, and quotes from some regulations under the Banking Act of 1979: "Any reference in these regulations to a regulation is a reference to a regulation contained in these regulations." As he says: no room for doubt there.

miercuri, 7 martie 2012

Zeppelin

And if you listen very hard

The tune will come to you at last.

When all are one and one is all

To be a rock and not to roll.

And she's buying the stairway to heaven.

marți, 24 ianuarie 2012

Shit Happens

"We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it but it's still there."

Gary Oldman

marți, 17 ianuarie 2012

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. –That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."