british laws?

Question

how many of you think that the british laws, are very out of date, to some other countries, quite a few of the british laws, where made a long time ago, when there was not as much crime as there is in this day and age, do you think that all the old law should be changed, so the punishment fits the crime

Answer 1

i agree because if you get behind the wheel of a car while drunk and fatally injure someone, you get a warning or a pathetic sentence,its pathetic in my opinion,good question xxx

Answer 2

Hard for me to say because I don't know anything about the British laws. But, quite a few of our American laws were made a long time ago too, and our constitution is over 200 years old, so does that mean it needs revisions?

Answer 3

You talk about law as if it was a static thing but it is evolving all the time through different precedents and discussions in government.Every now and again some journalist will dig up some old piece of legislation and the sun readers will start jumping up and down.
The fact that you are asking this question in the first place gives me the opinion that you don't know enough about British law to be able to comment on it.

Answer 4

Top question is that.

I agree that British Law need a good re-think, Too many people getting away with too many crimes, a slap on the wrist is the norm these days.
The PC brigade who say you cannot put them in prison or deport someone as it breaches ther human rights are making things worse... For example.. that Italian who murdered that teacher... he served a few years of what should have been life not 25 years but life... never to be released. He gets to live in this country living off taxpayers money and whats to stop him and the others from killing someone else? People like him need to be deported to his home country.

The punishment SHOULD fit the crime... Your life for taking a life, Rapists should never see the light of day, some goes for pedofilies and the like, they should never get the chance to commit thier crimes ever again.

Labour wont do a thing about our laws, as long as they are getting their money thats all they care about.

Answer 5

I think all the laws needed are there. They just need enforcing properly.
People are given "life" for a crime like murder and with good behaviour are out in 6 or 7 years. Life should mean life

Answer 6

Not sure if you're joking or not....

The law changes all the time. It is not merely set in statute but is continuously changed on a daily basis by precedents in the courts!

This is in addition to the constant law making processes of the House of Commons and the equally constant development of law in the European Parliament!

Answer 7

Yes i most definitely do as the law is far too soft, and they need to bring back discipline too as things have got much worse with that taken away, and i can't really understand why it was taken away in the first place. What a good question to have asked.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

I think the whole raft of British law is either archaic and useless, or new and pointless. There are too many laws for ridiculous petty things, and the laws for serious stuff are too bogged down with crap.

We should scrap em all, sack all the lawyers and start over with some basic common sense laws.

Answer 10

The problem is not with the laws themselves, we have a comprehensive set of laws that are more than adequate to deal with all things.
The problem lays with the willingness to implement these laws to their full extent.

Answer 11

Yes, in an ideal world. But as you know this is not an ideal world. And its not just British law I'll have you know.