08 July, 2008

Ignorantia Legis

Gordon Brown has pushed through a record 2,823 laws in his first year as Prime Minister. That’s more than 10 per working day. Feel any better for that? Well listen to this.

The doctrine of ‘Ignorantia legis neminem excusat’ means you cannot claim as a defence that you didn’t know something was illegal. So you are assumed to know them all.

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