Reason.

I have written in the past about the need for a 'Law of Common Sense' but have struggled to work out how such an alien concept could possibly be enacted in our mad, mad,mad,mad UK.

I have now advanced the idea to a second stage.

Working on the basis that it is entirely impossible to eradicate all the nonsense which has found its way into our laws, regulations, precedents et al without some twenty years of very hard toil, there has to be an intermediate step.

For that period, an 'Appeal to Reason' would apply in all legal circumstances.

So, for example, if a burglar breaks into a business then damages himself severely in the process, in our current state of idiocy, he is allowed to sue, will probably succeed and a huge award will be made in his favour!

Okay, then. We permit this to continue in the interim where all judicial decisions could be submitted to the new appeals process wherein the enshrined principle would be "What would the 'Man on the Clapham Omnibus' conclude?"

On such a basis, the shyster lawyers would no longer be able to mount silly cases as the ultimate result would always be in serious jeopardy and subject to awards of costs!

[There are of course, possibilities to extend this into criminal areas where prosecutions have failed on silly technicalities and justice has been avoided.]

I am of course, fully aware that it would be entirely necessary to withdraw from the European Union and the European Courts for this to occur.