We demand the creation of a new British Law System whereby the first principle of the system is accessibility.
For a nation known worldwide for its legal system, the legal system of today in Great Britain has become a source of anger and frustration for countless millions of our people. It has become burdened by centuries of case law and precedent, complex to the point where the average person, although expected to follow it, can barely decipher it, and the enormous time and money cost of engaging with the legal system has created a huge artificial barrier to justice for many people.
The end result of the legal system of today is that many of our people cannot fairly use it, except whey find themselves on the receiving end of punishment. And increasingly, it is difficult for people to even know what is and isn't legal until they find out afterwards, which becomes a serious issue when ignorance isn't an allowable defence.
It should not be the case that British Citizens must spend thousands of pounds just to have any chance at navigating the legal system. It should not be the case that legal precedents from centuries in the past, when society was very different, are the determining factor in the outcome of legal cases. It should not be the case that people committing serious affronts against their national community are able to evade punishment by virtue of marginal legal technicalities, that they are only able to utilise as defences because they have the money to afford the legal lexicon required.
To remedy this problem, we demand that the first principle of the legal system be access to justice, that all our Citizens be able to engage with the legal system fairly. Legal databases that contain case law judgements (which are often used to determine outcomes) must be in the public domain and free to access. Concurrently, prior case law used to determine judgements should be subject to tests for relevance if the time span is many generations.
The idea of accessibility from the legal system is an ideal rather than a method, but it must be the case if the British people are to have faith in the fairness and strength of the law.
By National Rebirth Party
