... It is always possible to argue against a certain interpretation of the law that it is morally indefensible and there has always been a pressure within legal system to render it morally defensible, this how critical morality becomes a persuasive source of law. Some times it hard to find to 1Phil Haris, An Introduction to law,5th edition, butterworths,1997.p27 2 Slapper & Kelly,The English Legal System,7th edn 2004 identify law and how does it relate to morality. In an most extreme form the terms such as right, duty, and obligation, do not mean the same thing in law and morals A law making body who prescribes duties or confers rights does not even purport to prescribe morally binding duties or to confer defensible rights. In its less extreme form there can be evil laws and corrupt legal systems3. it is true that every society has some unjust laws because of the conflict between ...

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