Reply to post: Common law duty

UK terror law probe stresses 'safeguards' amid MI5 plot claims

Primus Secundus Tertius

Common law duty

It is a duty on all of us under English common law to help prevent crime. So MI5 are entitled to expect more co-operation than they actually get from Facebook etc.

As the US inherited English common law, there are similar obligations in North America with the arguable exceptions of Louisiana and Quebec. Some might argue that Alaska should respect whatever Russian equivalent there is of common law.

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