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A non fiction trilogy being part autobiography of a Greek South African English American; part historical account of Britain’s common law system; and part actual court judgment establishing legal precedent in which the law is what the chosen few lawmakers say it is.

The legal component underpinning my historical review of British law follows the premise that ‘history is told by the victors’. I narrate the wider context in which a society educated to believe an official narrative approved by the victors and explained by the experts, follows a common methodology going back to the early days of empire. Laws made for and by the rich without checks and balances limiting the rights of the lawmakers in a system of manufactured amnesia intended to overwrite historical transgressions in which lawmakers controlling regulation of their exclusive narrative only ever produces the same outcome.

When the law becomes whatever the court says it is without regard for actual evidence or common sense, that methodology consolidating absolute power for the courts corrupts absolutely. Common sense tells us that absolute power corrupts absolutely. I examine the big question; should any lawmaker in a British court have absolute power free from any oversight, common sense checks and balances, and if so, where when and how does that absolute authority end.

Common sense is a recurring theme in this story. Common law in Britain is based on judicial precedent, case law, and custom related common sense rather than a codified constitution. Common sense is the single commonality following the most significant advances in British law. For example; The Witchcraft Act 1735 effectively abolished the crime of witchcraft when common sense ended that entitlement for misogynistic religious white men to burn women at the stake if the evidence showed they floated when placed in water. Floating proved the defendant was made of wood and was thereby condemned as a witch. That was the law for hundreds of years.

The law changes slowly along checks and balances applied on the rails of common sense. We measure the success and the failure of laws for the common good along this line of common sense. Imagine if by 2026 there was still a place in British law allowing judgment to be codified by the hand of lawmakers unregulated by effective checks and balances, empowered to pass judgment free from appeal, able to persecute legal protest, illegally. When lies are made law applied by the liars who made the law it becomes rule by lying law. Not rule of law. That is common sense.

The opposite to rule of law is not anarchy. It is rule by law. Rule by law is rule by force. Rule by force is war, not law. Organized Crime rules by law. The function of a working judiciary in a rule of law is to end rule by law. Mussolini ruled by law. Hitler ruled by law. Trump rules by law. Rule by law is rule by the few at the expense of the many represented in egalitarian rule of law. Rule of law is how rule by law is ended.

Rule by law is rule by a self-chosen few members, for their exclusive benefit in a hierarchy where absolute power has corrupted absolutely.
“Rule by law in family court is the most pernicious, unaccountable legal entity currently operating as the opposite to rule of law by monetizing abuse of children for the benefit of law society members.

This is a shameful past, in which a prevailing culture of secrecy, reward and self-protection for an entitled elite led to unnecessary suffering for many victims and their families.”

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