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On the eve of Magna Carta’s 800th birthday, the British legal system is being ripped apart
A protest march against the Global Law Summit reminds us that the charter is still relevant today. - 26 February 2015, New Statesman
At midday on Saturday 21 February perhaps 70 of us, warmly clad, some carrying banners, gathered at Runnymede alongside the River Thames in Surrey. We were accompanied by an enormous, terrifyingly lifelike puppet of the UK’s Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling, dressed as King John.
We met in the car park of the Magna Carta tea-room, then set out in the cold sunshine across the muddy, sweeping water-meadow, with the river bending away to our left, to the memorial donated by American lawyers that marks the founding moment of the modern concept of the rule of law.
Read the full article here: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/02/eve-magna-carta-s-800th-birthday-british-legal-system-being-ripped-apart