Put your own house in order.

I seem to be doing an awful lot of posts about the law lately, but I can't let the recent comment by the Police that they are going to target "reckless drivers who use legal loopholes to avoid conviction" pass without comment. Let's be clear - if an accused person is acquitted, whatever the charge, it is because the prosecution have failed to prove their case. This may be for lack of sufficiently cogent evidence, or it may be because some necessary procedure was not complied with, but either way, it is for the prosecution to come up with the goods, and if they don't, the defendant walks. To suggest that somehow when this happens the defendant is at fault is farcical. If the law is too complex then it is for Parliament to sort it out, otherwise it's up to the Police and prosecution to do their job properly. We still do work on the presumption of innocence, don't we?