Government on Steroids? by: Emmanuel Opati, November 13, 2007 There is concern that the increasing over-legislation of the justice system by governments is adversely affecting traditional concepts of justice. Though there is need to ensure an orderly society, it is feared that increased government legislation in the criminal law may limit liberty and individual freedom. Speaking at the Heritage Foundation on November 5th, Judge Inigo Bing, Circuit Judge of Snaresbrook Crown Court in the United Kingdom (U.K.), said that “criminal law is by its nature authoritarian. And over-criminalization is more consistent with an authoritarian state than with a liberal democratic...