British Justice, the Magna Carta and Corpus Juris
The Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights form the foundation stone of our freedom and system of justice: where you are innocent until proven guilty.
British justice has always consisted of the following stages:
(i). Suspicion by the police
(ii). Investigation and the collection of evidence
(iii). Arrest when there is sufficient evidence when you are told of the charge against you.
(iv). Trial where you have the right of silence and not to incriminate yourself. The prosecution has to convince a jury of your peers that you are guilty – from the Magna Carta.
This is being quietly replaced with a system of justice based on the Napoleonic Code, the Roman Law of Justinian and the Catholic Church (Inquisitorial) Law.
This ‘Corpus Juris’ works in the following manner:
(i). Suspicion
(ii). Arrest
(iii). Appointment of a magistrate to deal with your case who will eventually set about seeking evidence for a prosecution
(iv). When their case is ready, you will then be informed of the charges against you – i.e: the prosecution have a huge time advantage and you have a huge disadvantage in that you will have to convince the magistrate of your innocence. You have no right of silence.
(v). From here on it is similar to the UK magistrate system but there is no trial by an independent jury.
Napoleon was a dictator; Justinian was a Romano-Byzantine emperor of whom it was said: “He never kept a contract” (Procopius – The Secret History) and Catholic Church Inquisitorial law concentrated on the persecution and prosecution of heretics.
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"I am a British citizen who has been living on the continent for over 35 years. In the beginning I was all in favour of European unity."
"Since then I have learnt something of the deep differences between the 'European-continental' and the 'Anglo-Saxon' ways of doing things. Without vetoes, they can make us adopt their ways and relinquish our own."
"Take criminal justice. Nowhere on the continent is there Habeas Corpus or Trial by independent jury. People are routinely put in prison on mere suspicion, and can be kept there for weeks, months, and longer, while the prosecutor-investigator, who is also a judge, builds his case against them."
"This 'inquisitorial' system was adopted by the EU Commission in its project for an embryo EU-wide criminal code, Corpus Juris. I was at the seminar in Spain in 1997 where they unveiled it. They plan for our legal system to be jettisoned and replaced by the continental one."
"Or take the hyper-regulation. Politicians lording it over businesses."
"We won’t like it."
Torquil, Rome
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A jury represents the common man or woman, ie the real view of the public. A jury can actually find the accused not guilty even when it is very clear that the accused is without any doubt guilty if they see the law being imposed is a nonsense, ie they are a safety valve for ill thought out law and moreover make the ordinary person part of the system of justice and governance rather than imposing it on him/her from above as in the Euro system. It is a huge difference psychologically and hierarchically.