[Lazamataz]

Vice-Chancellor Sir Andrew Morritt ruled that the British Museum Act - which protects the collections for posterity - cannot be overridden by the ethical merit of a claim involving plundered art.

Britain has gone quite mad, so why wouldn't it now subscribe to the notion that "We stole it fair and square."

[Drammach]

Britain has gone quite mad, so why wouldn't it now subscribe to the notion that "We stole it fair and square."

That's not what the judge said, or even implied..
He merely said that the present laws prohibited their return..
He also noted that the parliament made the laws prohibiting the article's return, and can rescind or change the laws as they see fit..

The judge is only following the law, and leaving it up to the legislature to correct their mistakes..

Would that american judges could do as much..