The United Kingdom Public Law

The United Kingdom Public Law

United Kingdom Public Law

Public law is the section of law that governs the relationship between individuals and the government and other relationships between individuals, which directly concern the society. It comprises of constitutional law, tax law, criminal law and administrative law. In public law, compulsory rules prevail. Freedom of speech is the notion of publicly voicing one’s view without the fear of being punished or censored. In the UK, the freedom of speech is a philosophy of great importance. This is either because freedom of speech is one of the basic human rights or because in Europe it is the social consensus. In Europe, the expression of opinion, including expression through demonstrations, is part of a functional democracy. This perspective encourages debate on important issues and the freedom to allow individuals to express their opinions.

In U.S, Martin Luther King led a demonstration against the legalized discrimination in the country against the black people (Hayek, 1978). In India, Gandhi broke the salt laws to demonstrate against the British rule (Kettles, 2006). Recently in Europe, The Times and Reuters argued against a court order that requested them to surrender leaked documents by a source arguing that it was against the right of freedom of expression and the court ruled in their favor. Some of these examples of demonstrations and expression of opinions involved breaking of the law to help bring positive change in the society. It is the government’s mandate to maintain law and order, looking at these examples from this perspective on the other hand, it is not very clear, as to whether they involved breaching the law.

It is important to be cognizant of the need to ...

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...ndividuals feels that the regulations are unwarranted, they can contest them in a court of law. What is evident from these rules and regulation is that public peace is of fundamental requirement in the United Kingdom and it should be protected at all costs.

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References

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Hayek, F. (1978). The constitution of liberty. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Kettles, D. (2006). Public bureaucracies: The Oxford handbook of political institutions. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Laban, D. (2001). Law's blindfold: Conflict of interest in the professions. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Muller, E. (2004). Institutions and public policy in presidential systems: Presidents, parliaments and policy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press