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The rule of law

Ian Yule explains how the rule of law works

The rule of law is considered to be one of the fundamental doctrines of the UK constitution and recognised in section 1 of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005. The nineteenth-century political theorist A. V. Dicey identified three core elements of the concept:

■ No person can be subject to punishment without breaking a law.

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