Law and Technology

“And when London is but a memory and the Old Bailey has sunk back into the primeval mud, my country will be remembered for three things: the British Breakfast, ‘The Oxford Book of English Verse,’ and the Presumption of Innocence!” That presumption is the Golden Thread which funs through the whole history of our Criminal Law — so, whether a murder has been committed on Old Kent Road or on the way to Nova Lombardo, no man shall be convcted if there is a reasonable doubt as to his guilt.” — “Rumpole and the Golden Thread,” p. 274 from “The Second Rumpole Omnibus,” (Penguin Books, 1988)