This occurs frequently in relation to issues of national security and immigration issues regarding suspected terrorists. \begin{array}{lrr} $$ 5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent Book Explaining The Rule of Law. There should be law to govern action, and law should be obeyed by all officials. It guarantees access to justice. 4 Joseph Raz, "The Rule of Law and its Virtue" in The Authority of Law: Essays on Law and Morality (Oxford, 1979), p 210. It requires a detainee to be brought before the court, so the legality of their detention can be determined and if not, the prisoner must be released. Lord Bingham's eight principles of the Rule of Law: (1) The law must be accessible and so far as possible intelligible, clear and predictable. When I was a high school student considering studying Law at university, I read both The Rule of Law and What About Law and found this combination very informative. As Lord Hewart said, It is not necessary to be a horticulturist to realize that if a tree bears bad fruit, the more vigorously it delivers, the greater the calamity harvest will be. In short, public servants have a duty to apply established rules, but cannot invent new rules of their own. It features illuminating scrutiny of US extraordinary rendition (basically used to kidnap suspects and torture them for information) and UK surveillance (more than 4 million CCTV cameras and the largest DNA database in the world). This provision, the Attorney-General has suggested, 1. illustrates the importance attached to the rule of law in the modern age, 2. It ensures procedural fairness over much of the range of administrative decision-making by officials1. WebRULE OF LAW. This is how the rule of law functions, but opinions vary on what the concept known as the rule of law means. At one extreme, the rule of law is merely a rhetorical device or a political philosophy and its content is unimportant (the content-free view). As Aristotle explained in the fourth century BC, 'the rule of law is to be preferred to that of any individual'. 8. in 2013, an emergency Act of Parliament, Jobseekers (Back to Work Scheme) Act 2013, was introduced which amended 1 Bingham L, "The rule of law" (jstor.orgMarch 2007) < ;