... shall have the authority of the law and those laws must be regarded as fair and just. In the latter part of the nineteenth century A V Dicey was a major exponent of The Rule of Law and the principles laid down by him, albeit in support of earlier writings, today help form the basis of what is regarded as the ideal. Whether reality allows for idealism is to be discussed. Dicey held, in his work "Introduction to the Law of the Constitution" (1865), "that no man is punishable or can be made to suffer in body or goods except for a distinct breech of law established in the ordinary legal manner before the ordinary courts of the land". In other words we should obey the law and rightly be punished when and only when we break that law and only when we have had the opportunity for a fair trial. Dicey ...

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