... Again emphasised through the association of the United Kingdom with European Community Law as well as the incorporation of the Human Rights Act has meant that the rule of law has once again been modified. According to T.R.S Allan, for a lawyer, the rule of law constitutes a "corpus of basic principles" and values lending stability to the legal order. On the other hand for a politician, it becomes a "stick with which to beat other regimes." Allan would see it as a legal doctrine as well as a political idea that has direct implication for the identification of the law that judges and citizens should recognise. For other writers such as Raz, who wrote "The Rule of Law and its Virtue," saw these various virtues defined by Allan, such as qualities of legality, certainty, consistency and accountability as concrete manifestations of the rule of law enabling the correct prediction of ...

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