Two Systems, One Ignored Well, it’s finally happened, folks. As of March 13th, Dominic Raab, Foreign Secretary for the United Kingdom, now considers the People’s Republic of China to be in a “state of ongoing non-compliance” with the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984, after the “third breach in nine months”. Does this change a lot? Not necessarily. As many may already know, the Joint...
From the Case Log of Sydney Scofflaw, Osgoode Student So maybe that stuff over the summer was a bit of bad luck; transporting to everywhere where my actions would be criminal. Took a bit of explaining, but I managed to get out of trial cleared of all charges. (Don’t ask about the horse.) But maybe…maybe that means there’s another way around it. If I can get the machine to actually work the other...
NOTE: the contents of this fictional retelling have been taken from trial transcripts. Some details have been changed or omitted to ensure privacy. Sidney Scofflaw got up to the stand. “You are Sydney Scofflaw, aged –, living in –? And you are a second-year student here at Osgoode, where the Osgoode Supreme Court is holding trial?” said the judge. “That’s right,” said Scofflaw. “And you were on...
It is, as we all know, impossible to change the past. It is, however, surprisingly easy to change the law. You just need an interesting enough case (for judges) or a large enough incentive (for politicians). But what about using the law to alter the past? When this correspondent received a letter from St. Hushar, Koizumi, and Hochstapler LLP detailing their experiments in metaphysical law, well...