Europe won’t tolerate Magna Carta

The company concerned, Patterson Law, has queried the legality of fixed penalty fines for some motoring offences. It cites human rights legislation stating anyone accused of an offence has the right to a trial if they deny guilt.

Perhaps if Patterson Law read John Phillpott’s column every Saturday, and my letters, they would have been on to this years ago.

Mr Phillpott and I have pointed out several times over the years that no Englishman can be punished by the state for any offence unless they have had an opportunity to appear in court, to argue their case before a jury of their peers.

Only when a jury has heard all the arguments and found the accused guilty does the state have a constitutional right to impose a penalty.

Concurrent with that right to trial and judgement by a jury it is the jury’s right to ignore parliament’s laws and find the accused not guilty.

It is therefore not parliament but we the people who impose this nation’s laws.

That is our guarantee of freedom under the law.

In constitutional terms all fixed penalty fines are unlawful and as such we do not have to pay them.

That the state has imposed these unconstitutional fines defines our MPs’ attitude to our most basic and fundamental right under the cornerstone of our system of justice, that of Magna Carta.

The process of covertly doing away with Magna Carta has been going on for decades, indeed there was a speeding case before Worcester’s magistrates a few years back that cited Magna Carta and I believe the Crown’s case immediately collapsed.

Europe won’t tolerate Magna Carta, or our right to Habeas Corpus – the right to be brought before a court to establish if our remaining in custody is lawful because it destroys Europe’s system of Napoleonic law, under which the accused may be held in custody for literally years before being brought to trial.

Moreover, the European Arrest Warrant is also constitutionally unlawful – because it supplants Magna Carta.

That is why the last thing our justice system wants is somebody walking into court waving Magna Carta.

Moreover, our right to argue our case in court before a jury of our peers destroys a whole tranche of European Law because they are ‘regulations’ which have never been debated and voted upon by parliament.

That implies we are all perfectly entitled to ignore all Europe’s regulations.

That would bring the whole European house of cards crashing down! Indeed I understand that under our written constitution Parliament doesn’t even have the constitutional right to sign us up to any treaty that enables a foreign power to govern us.

N TAYLOR

Worcester