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How to minimise damage from legal overreach

OPINION: How to focus legislation onto people causing the problem? Opt in or out provisions would be one solution.

The scales of justice.

David Schnauer Sun, 30 Jul 2023

The first part of this article, published yesterday, discussed propensities in our democratic, legislative, and bureaucratic structures, to increase restrictions over citizens’ lives. Unfortunately, these are not the only issues with legal overreach – or red tape. 

The legal profession itself is

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