ENGLISH LAW AND LEGAL SYSTEM

• DOLL


  Rule of law
• Rule of law


  • No person shall be sanctioned except in accordance with the law
  • Shall be fairness + clarity of law
• A.V. Dicey Principles


  • Lack of arbitrary power
  • Equality of law
  • Supremacy of law
• Lack of arbitrary power

  • Does not establish limits on society
  • States power controlled by law + challenged by Judicial review
  • Preventing state from having wide discretionary powers by check incer 107
• Equality of law


  • No one is above the law
  • Applies to everyone equally
  • Discrimination in legal system would be a violation of rule of law
• Supremacy of law


  • Different from parliamentary supremacy
  • Contradicts idea of arbitrary power above
  • Parliament is supreme law making authority