bailiff activities (or fraud, depending on how you look at it) shoul dbe made illegal unless you have a CCJ against you for at least £2000.You can have a parking ticket and not even know about it and find your car missing from outside your home one day...without ever knowing why or being properly given the chance to pay up or rectify the situation. According to Robert’s Rules, you should, at the very least, require a two-thirds vote and previous notice to make any change at all in your bylaws. Laws might aim to increase or decrease various activities, such as owning a gun, or taking a work leave to care for a sick family member, or polluting, or hiring a minority job candidate. 'I hear from many.' By treating drug misuse (as opposed to drug dealing) as a criminal rather than a health issue we have created what is universally acknowledged to be the biggest cause of crime in the country. Since the emergence of the women's rights movement in the mid-19th century, there have been a number of changes in laws affecting women, from giving women full … Zimmerman Juror: Self-Defense Laws Should Be Changed After Trayvon Martin Killing Reuters George Zimmerman talks with jury consultant Robert Hirschhorn, right, during Zimmerman's trial in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Florida, Friday, June 14, 2013. Lane-splitting for motorcycles is safe and efficient … However I would suggest one change: We need to separate our human rights, which should be universal, from our civil rights, which are only conferred to people who adhere to our human, and civil responsibilities.The Law Lords and the European Court of Human Rights may disagree, but the right to vote is a good example, of a civil right, which should be lost for the duration someone is in prison. Complain about this comment (Comment number 33). That council tax be done away with and a new local VAT be introduced. If councils want the right to spy & snoop on the generakl public then pass a specific law to that end.Using a loophole in the badly defined counter-terrorism legislation is morally bankrupt and undermines public trust in every law. Can this intiative reduce bureaucracy? To withdraw from the convention of human rights would leave this country in a dangerous position. As part of a system of checks and balances, armed citizens are an oversight mechanism and deterrent for any government considering tyranny. After he became elected president, in a speech he was giving, a member of the public asked him how he was going to address the overwhleming majorities concern over drug prohibition.Obama dismissed it as an online group who got a little excited and flooded his website, and assured everyone that nothing would change. In order to do this we need to look at decriminalising the use of drugs so that addicts can look for help without fear of prosecution. Complain about this comment (Comment number 46). Laws should not constantly change. I'd like the Human Rights act to be extended to cover our soldiers. Most news media in this country is based on anonymous offical sources allowing them to lie blatantly to you.......its a simple and obvious step, Complain about this comment (Comment number 27). At 10:39am on 01 Jul 2010, whiler wrote:8. Please consider upgrading your browser software or enabling style sheets (CSS) if you are able to do so. I also believe that these laws should be changed because abortion is potentially more dangerous than actually giving birth. Dozens of people have died in the streets and lanes of Richmond because of a lack of courage and insight by legislators. Kind of ironic that people are complaining that CCTV violates their human rights while wanting the right to kill criminals. Harass their families and friends! Tax the sales and use the money to finance awareness campaigns and clinics where people can get help to kick their habit.4. I hope they adress some of the imbalances at trial introduced by Labour in the CJA 2007 and other measures that followed Labour's 'Everyone is guilty!' 1. How about we don't change laws but impose the ones we have instead?I regularly see people skipping red lights, cars with the muffler taken out of the exhaust, teenage cyclists on a mission to injure as many people as possible, people allowing their dogs to mess everywhere, people playing very loud music with all their windows open and their guests lying semi-unconscious on the pavement in front of the house, etc., and not a policeman around to do anything (or worse, with policemen around who don't do anything! Let us abolish our 'representive democracy' model and the politicians that represent us and move to self-regulation - that would clearly work as we know it did with self regulation regarding the financial sector...I always understood that we elected a Parliament to make these decisions..or did I miss something? Complain about this comment (Comment number 69), Complain about this comment (Comment number 70). As technology's capability is being grows, the law should be changed and adapted to … Too lucrative for the lawyer, friends of Camers And Cleggwggy!Councils doing only want they were established for:1. kill rats,2. At 11:31am on 01 Jul 2010, The Fickle Finger wrote:I'd like the Human Rights act to be extended to cover our soldiers. The public rarely get a voice/forum - the media/journalists opinions normally dominate (and they have their own agenda and spin) Do we actually have to go in the opposite direction and restrict the media lying/spinning in pursuance of it's own biased agenda and influence over the masses. Complain about this comment (Comment number 61). Outside of the EU with it's (limited) facilities offered to all EU citizens, such is not the case, in many other civilised countries visitors are expected to pay for health treatment, and even new residents have to spend a certain amount of time within the country to qualify as a user of the system. Joining the military is the only job in the world where its fairly inevitable that someone will try and kill you (I did 4 months in Croatia and got snipped at twice and mortared once). Give people who have worked all their lives a higher pension than those who couldn't be bothered. He did it very condescendingly. Law is the medium through which social change can be achieved. Complain about this comment (Comment number 78). 86. The Infidelity Law of the Philippines. Complain about this comment (Comment number 2). Nonsense/unworkable suggestions will of course be heard along with good ideas. At 11:13am on 01 Jul 2010, Andy wrote:I'd like to see the law quashed where you can be tried for defending your own property. --------------------------------Another area due for reform is in the National Health Service, this is paid for by British tax payers and those who pay their NHI contributions and yet it's services are available to anybody the moment they land on our shores; very charitable I am sure but not very pragmatic in these financially difficult times. All the laws & silly little regulations & bye-laws enacted by Tony Blair & his government should be repealed. Draconian? So that the Sun and Hillsborough, for example, would have led to that paper's prosecution. This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Immediately. However, if you click the link on the HYS piece, Your Freedom, it will take you to the new Your Freedom website which is the gov site relating to this very question?The Deputy PM opens the agenda on law repeals and is responsible for this government site and we should all use it if we want to change or repeal the plethora of laws that not even the lawyers always understand, never mind actually know about, including local authorities who take cases to law because they can at your expense, not because it's right? Something British politicians forgot about a long time ago, assuming they ever had that intention, Complain about this comment (Comment number 51). I would like to see bailiff laws changed. This page has been archived and is no longer updated. is the HYS question. Complain about this comment (Comment number 20). Complain about this comment (Comment number 22). Complain about this comment (Comment number 87). Read more. This debate has now closed. Lock up the editors and throw away the key! At 10:11am on 01 Jul 2010, David Dewick wrote:Allow singing in pubs.--again, not illegal- its entirely up to the landlord. The operator should be obliged under the Contract to comply with all applicable legislation. An air-gun? Also scrap legislation that allows police to retain the DNA of innocent people. Can we add a new law please to make a condem coalition illegal. Name and shame them, publish their addresses! Buying a lottery ticket is fine at 16, but placing a bet in a betting shop or playing a slot machine is for over 18s only! fill in pot holes,3. And inventing interviews (a rather frequent occurence) and quotes would be illegal. You could only be sued if you have gone out of your way to make the path outside your house dangerous. Replace the seriously abused human rights bill by applying some common sense. Brighton could reinvest this additional wealth into the town to make it more attractive to visitors and thereby increase visitor numbers. Limit house holds to one car Yellow #5 should be banned. Sorry if that inconveniences the army, but it's ridiculous to say they can't afford our lads the basic 'human rights'.If the soldiers can't have it, then dump the whole lot. How important is it for governments to consult the public in these matters? It's that simple. Too many to list!Perhaps all laws should be repealed and a new, concise set of laws, be written.Generally there should be more self-determination and self-responsibility in my view. The UK’s 2008 Climate Change Act mandates an 80% reduction of greenhouse gases from its 1990 baseline by 2050, along with a range of measures to achieve this goal. ABOLISH ALL QUANGO's No. Allow singing in pubs.Repeal anything that stipulates that only metric quantities be used; make all goods sold by weight/qty use imperial standards. Just try finding it..."Took less than a minute to find it...https://yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk/, Complain about this comment (Comment number 26), My proposal would be for a new law. The Human Rights Act in one form or another has to stay, unless we withdraw from the European Convention of Human Rights (which has no association with the European Union), simply because it would prove very costly to the country to defend individual claims in the European Court, the original reason for the act in the first place. Michael Short is The Age's chief editorial writer, as well as a columnist. 1. Marriage equality. and let you think that you have some say in matters of government. The statistics relating to crime consistently show that a significant proportion of crime (and revolving door re-offending) are fuelled by drink and/or drugs. If no constraints are put on claiming individual rights you end up with a war of all against all.Second, if the European Convention on Human Rights cannot be repealed it must be made subject to our own Supreme Court as the highest interpreting authority.Third, the Civil Contingencies Act (2004) would embarrass leaders of totalitarian regmes. Assisted dying. I've spent a little time on this website...it looks like another waste of money/time. The collective wisdom and wit of the crowd winnows well. Until all members of our society are treated the same in the eyes of the law then you will only be changing laws which affect a certain segment of society. 74. It's not necessarily the law that needs to change as much as the way it is administered. The ASRC gets not one cent from government, but has managed to help about 12,000 people in various ways over recent years. Far too many people "know their rights" very few understand their responsibilities, that is a failing of the current legislation and needs to be addressed. Far too often we are subjected to propaganda which at times includes lying to the public. In India it is not illegal to have sex for money. At 11:23am on 01 Jul 2010, halibut wrote:Just registered to agree with #61Make it legal to shoot burglarsWith what? Contract law, property law, trust law, tort law, criminal law and constitutional law are just a few of the many laws created over time. Let's remove the laws that require imperial measurements. During the campaign we were promised by the ConDems that they had the answers to the country's problems, but since taking power the Chancellor and now the DPM are asking for help and guidance.Of course, all politicans who ask the general public their opinion go on to completely ignore what is said and simply proceed down the path they were on in the first place.So which is it Nick; a genuine lack of ideas on your part, or a cynical game to play with the public? ABOLISH ALL QUANGO's---Another statement parroted straight from the Britain-hating tabloids.Do you even know what a Quango does?I'll give you a clue, they pretty much all have different functions, some are probably a bit superfluous, whilst others are vital. Where is the list of all laws still on the statute books?Once both of these are known then we can properly get started.mandyshannon at 8 - interesting, although not for everyone as some from both genders will be just too horrid a sight and would need to be "legally" covered! approach to Law. The gun laws should not change, at least not in a manner that would be any more restrictive to people. 'What laws would you change'? Among things that are mainstream today, but were previously outlawed or otherwise precluded, are prosecution for rape in marriage, Indigenous voting rights, homosexual sex, paying for sex, backyard water tanks, al fresco eating, serving alcohol after 6pm and immigration from non-white nations. Many law experts have claimed that the reason why laws change over time is because the values and moral beliefs of people change. 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