They’re so vague you end up in a long legal battle even in what looks like cut-and-dry situations. I don’t disagree with letting the courts determine culpability when it’s unclear, but some of the fights people have had clearing themselves of very obvious self-defence of themselves and their family are egregious.
Police just reflexively charge people because they don’t want to have to take responsibility to think. Do you charge a woman for stabbing someone that tries to rape them? She’s already been through that trauma, now she gets to spend the next two years in court.
That said, this is probably a Conservative MP and you have to know the legislation is probably daft in the other direction.
The long legal battle is the issue here. The problem with cut and dry is that it isn’t always so, and evidence needs to be gathered. I agree that the process needs to be improved, I do worry about the cops being the ones to be the judge effectively, on cases where people are murdered. I know it’s early days and I clearly don’t have all the info
I thought we had laws on the books where you can use appropriate reciprocal force already
They’re so vague you end up in a long legal battle even in what looks like cut-and-dry situations. I don’t disagree with letting the courts determine culpability when it’s unclear, but some of the fights people have had clearing themselves of very obvious self-defence of themselves and their family are egregious.
Police just reflexively charge people because they don’t want to have to take responsibility to think. Do you charge a woman for stabbing someone that tries to rape them? She’s already been through that trauma, now she gets to spend the next two years in court.
That said, this is probably a Conservative MP and you have to know the legislation is probably daft in the other direction.
The long legal battle is the issue here. The problem with cut and dry is that it isn’t always so, and evidence needs to be gathered. I agree that the process needs to be improved, I do worry about the cops being the ones to be the judge effectively, on cases where people are murdered. I know it’s early days and I clearly don’t have all the info