Comments on: Quality of Legislation http://robfisher.net/blog/archive/2009/04/29/quality-of-legislation/ RobFisher.net Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:11:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Johnathon Robert Madden : Darcus Howe http://robfisher.net/blog/archive/2009/04/29/quality-of-legislation/comment-page-1/#comment-1005586 Johnathon Robert Madden : Darcus Howe Tue, 05 May 2009 06:33:42 +0000 http://www.robfisher.net/blog/?p=794#comment-1005586 [...] Quality of Legislation [...] [...] Quality of Legislation [...]

]]> By: virgil xenophon http://robfisher.net/blog/archive/2009/04/29/quality-of-legislation/comment-page-1/#comment-1005563 virgil xenophon Sat, 02 May 2009 19:38:50 +0000 http://www.robfisher.net/blog/?p=794#comment-1005563 I remember reading circa1982 an article on taxation in Newsweek magazine and the confusing myriad mountain of conflicting regulations not only in the US but in most nations. A Turkish diplomat or financier (can't remember exactly) was quoted as saying: "You want to know how the world will end? As the population increases one day everyone will get stuck in one huge traffic-jam. To get it unstuck a government official will come along and give everyone an official form to fill out--but nobody will be able to figure out the form. And that's the way the world will end." I remember reading circa1982 an article on taxation in Newsweek magazine
and the confusing myriad mountain of conflicting regulations not only in the US but in most nations. A Turkish diplomat or financier (can’t remember exactly) was quoted as saying: “You want to know how the world will end? As the population increases one day everyone will get stuck in one huge traffic-jam. To get it unstuck a government official will come along and give everyone an official form to fill out–but nobody will be able to figure out the form. And that’s the way the world will end.”

]]> By: cerebros http://robfisher.net/blog/archive/2009/04/29/quality-of-legislation/comment-page-1/#comment-1005561 cerebros Sat, 02 May 2009 09:51:03 +0000 http://www.robfisher.net/blog/?p=794#comment-1005561 Why would the law be written in a way the "common" people can understand it? A lot of MPs are/were lawyers and I wouldn't be at all surprised if they deliberately make the law complicated as possible to keep their former (and possibly future if they get voted out) colleagues in work. Come on - when Blair (former lawyer) was PM, could no-one see the potential conflict of interest in the fact that his wife was still practicing law (often against her husband's government)? I'm not suggesting any sort of collsusion between the two (don't wanna get sued lol) but it was certainly iffy IMO Why would the law be written in a way the “common” people can understand it? A lot of MPs are/were lawyers and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if they deliberately make the law complicated as possible to keep their former (and possibly future if they get voted out) colleagues in work.

Come on – when Blair (former lawyer) was PM, could no-one see the potential conflict of interest in the fact that his wife was still practicing law (often against her husband’s government)? I’m not suggesting any sort of collsusion between the two (don’t wanna get sued lol) but it was certainly iffy IMO

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