> The rules aren’t meant to be bent British law is full of opportunities for rules to be bent in the pursuit of justice and common sense. > if Lucas made a mi

> The rules aren’t meant to be bent British law is full of opportunities for rules to be bent in the pursuit of justice and common sense. > if Lucas made a mistake in filing the wrong paperwork, it absolutely makes sense for the consequences to follow Do you pay British tax? I think you’d be hard-pushed to find even the most ardent anti-immigration Britisher saying they thought this was a good use of their tax pounds and the Home Office’s time. > the law was clear, and any emotional appeal should be invalid Said no jurisprudence scholar, ever. There’s a reason that strict liability crimes are so limited in number, why judges in the UK have considerable leeway in sentencing, and so on.