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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, December 15 2012 @ 03:55 AM EST |
"Using "England" to refer to Britain is wrong.
No sorry, I had to reply to this.
I never said that England=Britain.
What I did say that that it was an English court that delivered the judgement.
Yes, England is a part of Britain and I suppose that in a way an English court
is a British one, but this is a website that is devoted to legal matters and
using the sort of language used by lawyers means that you have to parse the
meaning of words very strictly.
So, although it might be correct to describe and English court as a British one,
in this case the trial and judges were working under English law. Which as I
said in my original post is different to Scottish or Northern Ireland Law.
You could say that a court in say, Nebraska, is a US court but that is not the
same as a Federal court. Different rules and different procedures etc.
As for protecting my national identity, actually I am not English, I am British
as I do not live on the mainland of England, or Great Britain, if you prefer.
Thank you.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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