The characteristics of effective laws need to be expressed in such of the following ways: they need to be clearly expressed and easy to understand, able to be learnt, acceptable to the community as a whole, stable but, yet flexible, consistent, able to be enforced and able to reflect changing values.

An important characteristic of an effective law is ‘Clarity’; the law needs to be expressed clearly and well understood for it to work. ‘Knowledge’ needs to be expressed as well to

make sure individuals know how close to what is right and what is wrong. Ignorance of the law is no excuse for individuals to go out and

While on the other hand the law must recognise the changing values and needs of society. The law needs ‘Flexibility’ in order to accommodate those changing demands.

If individuals are to be able to behave according to the law they must know what that law is. However if a law is constantly changing, it will be quite difficult for individuals to understand their legal right and responsibilities. Frequent changes only lead to confusion in the community leading onto uncertainty and non-acceptance of that law.

I believe that all laws are for a purpose and are built around ‘social cohesion’ for this very reason there hopefully is not an ineffective law. A law may be ineffective in other areas i.e. the Internet Censorship laws do not cover all topics which younger or older members of society might find offensive.

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