Compare & contrast:
1 Thousands of motorists who litter Britain's roads every day are escaping penalty because of a bureaucratic blunder … changes to the Environmental Protection Act, which were required to give councils extra powers, were made to an outdated version of the legislation and so the Bill could not pass through Parliament, according to a report in The Times
2 “The Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 is the usual hotchpotch of measures, with no theme, with much of the detail tucked away from close scrutiny in the schedules, and consisting in large part of textual amendment to earlier legislation. Much of the amendment is by way of undoing this Government's earlier legislation”
Archbold, quoted by David Outterside, Nottingham in a letter to The Telegraph
3 A new "Fair Rules" document from Downing Street advises: “Be clear in laying out the rules. The rules may be obvious for some, but we can’t always assume that everyone knows what the rules are, especially in a period of rapid change”
