“Letters to a Law Student”
(Letter 1, ‘What is Law’): Summary
“Letters to a Law Student” by Nicholas J McBride is a series of 20 letters from a law teacher (McBride) to his student (Alex), who is confused about his decision to pursue his decision to study law at a university. In his first letter out of 20, “What is Law”, McBride describes Alex what the law is and tells Alex that although legal education is quite interesting, pedagogic and important, would not be enough reasons for him to pursue law at a university. Talking about law as a conversation, McBride tells us that the law-makers talk. They decide the kind of society we live in. The conversations have been going on for ages and the fact that they may have a common stand, is very inconsistent. …show more content…
Under all the views, the Lords discussed the need of the security of the people. Also, discussed about the empowerment of the government in the case of emergency. Although, they argued that the power should be controlled strictly. The Parliament was involved in the detention of the non-national suspects, which according to them, was for the sake of the security of the people. A lot of discrimination happened during all this. “Section 23 of the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001” was quite a lot disputed because a local citizen of the UK could not be detained indefinitely under the clause, unlike the non-nationals who were facing the difficulties in the name of suspicion of terrorism. Parliamentary sovereignty was under talks when the parliament passed the Human Right Acts 1998, checking the human rights of the people in the state of the UK. All this, including few more statutes like Act of Parliament, Immigration Act had a major effect on the politics of the Belmarsh case. Eventually, the outcome of the case was quite fine when Lord Hoffman gave his decision which pushed the Parliament to repeal the “Section 23” and replaced it in the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005. The decision was good, as the latter meant to impose the orders to control on a being in order to prevent his
(Letter 1, ‘What is Law’): Summary
“Letters to a Law Student” by Nicholas J McBride is a series of 20 letters from a law teacher (McBride) to his student (Alex), who is confused about his decision to pursue his decision to study law at a university. In his first letter out of 20, “What is Law”, McBride describes Alex what the law is and tells Alex that although legal education is quite interesting, pedagogic and important, would not be enough reasons for him to pursue law at a university. Talking about law as a conversation, McBride tells us that the law-makers talk. They decide the kind of society we live in. The conversations have been going on for ages and the fact that they may have a common stand, is very inconsistent. …show more content…
Under all the views, the Lords discussed the need of the security of the people. Also, discussed about the empowerment of the government in the case of emergency. Although, they argued that the power should be controlled strictly. The Parliament was involved in the detention of the non-national suspects, which according to them, was for the sake of the security of the people. A lot of discrimination happened during all this. “Section 23 of the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001” was quite a lot disputed because a local citizen of the UK could not be detained indefinitely under the clause, unlike the non-nationals who were facing the difficulties in the name of suspicion of terrorism. Parliamentary sovereignty was under talks when the parliament passed the Human Right Acts 1998, checking the human rights of the people in the state of the UK. All this, including few more statutes like Act of Parliament, Immigration Act had a major effect on the politics of the Belmarsh case. Eventually, the outcome of the case was quite fine when Lord Hoffman gave his decision which pushed the Parliament to repeal the “Section 23” and replaced it in the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005. The decision was good, as the latter meant to impose the orders to control on a being in order to prevent his