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The Law Explored: treason

Lord Goldsmith, QC, the former Attorney-General, recently published a report — “Citizenship: Our Common Bond” — in which he recommends that the laws of treason should be redesigned. The idea is to make the citizen’s duty of allegiance to the country “more relevant to modern conditions”. That’s a very good idea. Few laws are in greater need of updating. Today’s main treason law is found in the Treason Act 1351. You wouldn’t want to get dental or medical treatment according to the principles of 1351, and ancient law can be just as inapt.

Full post as published by International and UK Law on March 19, 2008 (boomark / email).

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