It makes one wonder - was it ever NOT this way regarding the UK courts? Did we just not know?
There’s quite obviously a class system in the UK. Rules for some and not others. For the working class, all the rules apply when against you, none apply when they should be defending you.
It didn’t used to be like this. Remember that English justice freed John Wilkes from a charge of seditious libel pursued by George III himself in 1763. Back then judges were fierce advocates of defending the law and English liberty regardless of what the King or the political establishment wanted. Now our senior judges are bought and paid for by the establishment and the precedent has been set for political prosecutions to be used as a useful tool to deal with inconvenient political dissidents. In England. The shame.
Strictly a post-Maggie thing, along with a flood of girl-judges--who seem to be a crop of very obedient members of the Progressive hive.