Brilliant article on a site called Glasnost a pair of strikers concerning the application in many cases of the Golden Rule in law. Sigsworth case - an only son finds that his wealthy elderly mother intends to make a Will, whereby her wealth is distributed amongst her extended family to his disadvantage and making him no longer the sole beneficiary. So he murdered her. By the letter of the law, he stood to inherit her total wealth. However, the application of the golden rule, whereby no one can benefit from their own wrong doing by the literal application of the law meant that he inherited nothing. Glasnost gives many other cases of the application of the Golden Rule in law. Apparently it is a very fundamental First Year law Principle, yet LNS seems not to have known about it. Why did LNS not apply the golden rule? He found rfc guilty on all 4 counts, but by strictly applying the SFA rules erroneous or not, he permitted a wrong doer to benefit from his own wrong doing. Now should as seems likely rfc lose the UTT on the big tax case, then a wrong doer would be benefiting from criminal tax evasion. Will be interesting to see the reaction of UEFA. Celtic IMO should take their case to CAS if the tax case is reversed.
Possibly because he's Scottish? In law, the Golden rule, or British rule, is a form of statutory construction traditionally applied by English courts.
Good article , if you want to read a bad one go Rangers media , under delusional and conspiracy , the poor Hun half wit thinks we will be getting titles stripped and barred from europe for our part in Rangers downfall
THE LAW COMMISSION AND SCOTTISH LAW COMMISSION 1965 Section IV par 1 covers the Golden Rule and Mischievous Rule and cases of application in Scots Law. Seems expediency over ruled justice. Guilty on all 4 counts, but literal law applied rather than Golden Rule, even though the outcome is ludicrous.
