In message <20100806074045.gb66...@davros.org>, "Clive D.W. Feather" writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp said:
>I am not a Danish lawyer, but such a "current view" would be unlikely to >sway the UK courts in the presence of clear legislative wording to the >contrary. >[...] >The EU directive does no such thing. Clive, Your concern is appreciated, even if it is totally of the rails. It would not be a UK court, but a Danish court, which is not a common law court, and we have a constitution for Denmark that has relevant wording in it. One would suppose that to have relevance for your very bombastic argument, but you certainly don't sound like it. But even allowing for that, your argument is still bunk. No court, UK or DK, would take the case until you show you have standing to bring the suit. For starters, the actual change happend in 1958 when the clock running the free-of-charge "Frøkken Klokken" telephone service was adjusted to UTC. Unless you lived in 1958, you have a very tough row to hoe to convince anybody you can possibly have standing. Next problem: The "Tele-laboratoriet" reacted to a duly ratified official UN recommendation, with approval from the minister, and our parliament has not reacted adversely in 50 years. This gives rise to a very broad assumption of both legitimacy and executive reasonableness. The statute of limitations would at best be 5 or 10 years, unless you can bring evidence that people died as a result, in which case it is a criminal matter and you don't have standing anyway but have to hand it over to the public prosecutor. You are not even able to reach the EU directive on summer time with that. Finally you have to lift the burden of proof, to show that you, personally, has suffered a distinct, attributable harm, which the court can right. Good luck with that. Poul-Henning PS: just checked, they seem to have fixed the translation, now it uses UTC as reference: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32000L0084:DA:HTML -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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