The Rule of Law

"At base, the rule of law is about a rule by law, not men, about law, as Aristotle would have it, as reason devoid of passion. In real terms, what this translates to in the modern world should be, I suggest, about equality before the law-particularly for the despised, for the frightening, for the dispossessed, for the disenfranchised, for the outsider, for the alien. It means that nobody should be deprived of their liberty without the right to be heard, and the right to be heard is valueless without the ability to see the information upon which the decision to detain is made."


J M Schone ,The rule of law: a fundamental democratic principle, NEW LAW JOURNAL, 2004, NLJ 154.7149(1545)