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Lord Denning's "Spirit of the Law" outlook, although controversial at times, was yet one of the hallmarks of a legal system that prided itself on operating justly rather than expediently; an extension of the monarch's intervention on clemency grounds.

The ever encroaching civil service "Letter of the Law" approach is a creature of the republican, Napoleonic New Europe that seeks to reduce lawyers to a clerical arm of an inquisitorial court.

Perhaps we need Boris after all.

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