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                   principles attached f rom the Magna Carta which is the
                   requirement for property due to safeguard as it’s the answer to
                   justice.

                         The closing words of Chapter 29 of the Magna Carta
                   embody an individual’s right to access to justice before the
                   incorruptible decision maker will be judged according to the law,
                   not according to the size of the bribe or the particular threat.

                         And, then, 1234, the Great Council decided the case against
                   the King who had admitted he dispossessed an individual, one of
                   his subjects, over land without lawful judgment to this peers or by
                   the law of the land; the court ordered the King return the land to
                   him.  So, it shows, I think, the huge importance, if it needed
                   demonstrating, the strong and independent courts remain as an
                   element or a part of our legal system 800 years later.

                         What I do not think I have heard so far today is the
                   importance of an independent legal profession.  In the UK,
                   someone accused of a crime has the right to be represented by an
                   independent advocate as of a duty to justice, and not just to his or
                   her client and advocated his trained regulated abound by
                   professional code of ethics.  Are prosecutors independent of
                   government as are our regulators of the legal professions and, of
                   course, judges?  Is this the guarantor, we would say, of the
                   fundamental rights to have an independent court adjudicate on
                   the issues before it?

                         In this context, it is the courts themselves to say their role is
                   to enforce the will of parliament and its legislation the parliament
                   sets down, not the governments, not the particular will of the
                   government to the day or how the government perceives law
                   enforces that better that legislation but how the court says
                   parliament intended to have it enforced.

                         They are frustrating to the government, but they are not
                   there simply to irritate it.  And nor what I say it is altruistic to the
                   population at large, but, I think, how genuinely utilitarian
                   purposes behind this approach, which serve our own interest
                   collectively. Just take some practical example of criminal matters.





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