This Telegraph piece about imprisonment for “perverting the course of justice” by getting someone else to take speeding points has a wider significance.
Ill-conceived statutory regulation perverts the very nature of justice. It forbids appeal on grounds of reason.
Preventing us from deciding suitable speed based on conditions criminalises intelligent discretion. It amounts to statutory abuse of our basic humanity.
Misguided regulation provokes otherwise law-abiding citizens such as Chris Huhne and Fiona Onasanya to take desperate measures to protect their livelihoods which ends up putting them behind bars.
Idiot laws made by idiot people are the root of the injustice but they are never questioned.
