>Lack of enforcement means the law is bad law. It should either be repealed
or enforced.
I think your view is too abstract, Tim. There are many areas of society
where the enforcers of laws and statutory systems of regulation exercise
discretion in a somewhat arbitrary way whether to pursue cases or not. The
police don't pursue every burglary reported, and the HSE don't pursue every
breach of health and safety. If every breach of any law led to a prosecution
the whole of society would be constantly in and out of the courts one way
and another. The problem is where there is so much discretion arbitrarily
exercised that it becomes impossible for anyone to know where they stand
because similar cases get treated in wildly different ways.
Paul
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