Novel Nerd Blog - Book Reviews by Smitha

This book mentions that the Credit for coining the expression 'the rule of law' is usually given to Professor A.V Dicey,  the Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford, who used it in his book An introduction  to the study of the law of the constitution, p ublished 1885. In this book part 1, I came across what Tom Bingham has quoted Dicey's three meanings of definition for Rule of Law.  In the first place, he wrote 'that no man is punishable or can lawfully be made to suffer in body or goods except for a distinct breach of law established in the ordinary legal manner before the ordinary courts of the land. Dicey's thinking was clear. If anyone - you or I - is to be penalized it must not be breaking some rule dreamt up by an ingenious minister or official in order to convict us. It must be for a proven breach of the established law of the land. And it must be a breach established before the ordinary courts of the land, not a tribunal of members picked to do the gov...