50 days of spring
26th May concludes my first academic year in London. I guess it'll be appropriate to record maybe an aspect of each of the disciplines before they rest in a cozy corner at the back of my mind.
In contract law, I learnt that the person who broke the promise may not always be the one at fault.
In public law, I realised that humans' distrust in one another is innate.
In property law, I understood that law is never equitable, it cannot ever be.
In criminal law, I accepted that the greatest injustice possible is failing to protect the immoral from the moral.
Whilst we conceive law as a means to uphold what is just and fair, and that we consider the latter values to be set in stone, it is only logical to thus deduce that law is never justice or fairness. In the immortal words of the judge I love to hate the most,
"If we never do anything which has not been done before, we shall never get anywhere. The law will stand still whilst the rest of the world goes on; and that will be bad for both."
- Lord Denning in Packer v. Packer [1954] P. 15 at 22.
Law is so much more.
In contract law, I learnt that the person who broke the promise may not always be the one at fault.
In public law, I realised that humans' distrust in one another is innate.
In property law, I understood that law is never equitable, it cannot ever be.
In criminal law, I accepted that the greatest injustice possible is failing to protect the immoral from the moral.
Whilst we conceive law as a means to uphold what is just and fair, and that we consider the latter values to be set in stone, it is only logical to thus deduce that law is never justice or fairness. In the immortal words of the judge I love to hate the most,
"If we never do anything which has not been done before, we shall never get anywhere. The law will stand still whilst the rest of the world goes on; and that will be bad for both."
- Lord Denning in Packer v. Packer [1954] P. 15 at 22.
Law is so much more.