Yes, and you can thank the idiot Blair and his government for that, with their incessant fetish for signing us up to European legislation and treaties we didn’t want.
The “stupid” judges and “stupid” cops are only enforcing a work-to-rule based on the “stupid” legislation that BLAIR and co signed us up to.
We’ve had a Parliamentary debate this week where the new government have been moaning about stupid judicial decisions with a view to creating our own Bill of Rights and junking the idiot thing Blair signed us up to.
Well good luck to you. In Minnisota they have pretty much the same thing, i.e. perps suing homeowners if they injure themselves.
Well, I'll not argue against Blair being an idiot, but what is described in this article is 100% homegrown British madness. Been that way for a long time, best as I can tell. There's no other European country with no-self-defense-allowed laws on the sub-terranean level of the UK. None. And it's not imposed by the Brussels EU fascists for once, either. To wit, IT IS WHAT YOU (well, some majority anyway) WANTED, when voting Labour into power.