Re:UK Formally Abandons Europe’s Unified Patent Court
by dependenttypes on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @02:37AM
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Please do not forget events such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guildford_Four_and_Maguire_Sev..., they were arrested solely because they happened to be Irish and nearby an IRA attack.
> At their trial the judge told the defendants, "If hanging were still an option you would have been executed."
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Conlon
Considering the amount of cases in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Overturned_conviction... I would not put too much trust in the UK legal system.
I live in England and I have very little faith in the legal system, either in its laws or in the prison system. In fact, between criminalizing posession of some pornographic cartoons and the Snooper's Charter, not to mention the mandate that ISPs keep your history metadata for 9 months now, I have lost all faith in the English legal system. The populace that is apathetic to encroachments on rights, freedoms, and privacy, much like how it is currently trending in the US, is even worse given that there is no constitution to protect those rights, and we have to trust this government to create a 'bill of rights'. I can't be the only one incredibly cynical about what that would entail.