Law

Rule of Law

“proclamation of societal orderliness by those administering the law, backed by some evidence of good governance”
a mere phenomenon at best, often an ideal to strive for, but nobody has ever successfully prescribed concrete steps to achieve it
often used as an excuse to promote one’s dogmatic doctrines regardless whether causation is actually proven

“legal system from England that spread all over the world by the expansion of the British Empire”
tradition of splitting hairs, an retrofitting doctrines into the old system, asserting that they had always been there

“Landmark case that established cause of action for negligence”
cult-like status among law students
a fine example where judges sitting in the House of Lords are allowed to quote the Holy Bible in place of precedent and nobody bats an eye.

“Landmark case that affirms the rule that all elements of a crime must be proved by prosecution before the accused can be found guilty.”
Judge reviews the precedents and asserts that everyone else including learned judges below have misunderstood the legal authorities – case law is wrong because they referred to mere textbooks, and textbooks are wrong because they are not proper precedent (i.e. not cases)
another fine example where the House of Lords modify the common law yet asserting that the law had always been so
“Throughout the web of the English Criminal Law one golden thread is always to be seen” is a colorful metaphor that is employed in place of actual precedent, much like quoting Bible in Donoghue v Stevenson

“National Law of the PRC that provides constitutional framework for the governance of HKSAR”
Widely misunderstood to be analogous to constitutions of other democratic nations whereby government powers are restrained and people’s rights are protected
HKSARG’s powers are indeed limited by Basic Law, yet rights are reserved by PRC; HK people’s rights are protected as a side effect of PRC’s limitation of HKSARG’s rights