I see the Herald seeks to stoke the hysterical debate on the legal limit of blood alcohol. I have noticed that these OIA requests come in really handy for revisiting a story a couple of months after it is dead. Of course, it really is too much effort to find some actual news, instead of [...]

A comment yesterday by ScrubOne had me thinking about the problem of the margin in legislation. Simply put, the problem of the margin is the innate unfairness of a boundary which attracts a consequence on one side, but not on the other.  Take the speed limit as an example. Is someone traveling at 101 kph [...]

John Roughan has a nice little diatribe on the smacking referendum today. He sees to think that the law as it currently stands is not confusing, but that a single referendum question is (or, at least, has “sinister undertones”). He then quote the first section of the new law: “Every parent of a child, and [...]