ABSTRACT

T he need for a symbiotic relationship between right and remedy has long been recognised and the Key Ideas chart pro vides wide-ranging examples illustrating thi s vital principle.

15.2 Rights must be enforceable 15.2.1 Ubi jus, ibi remedium It is sometimes said that English law has been littl e influ enced by Rom an law, unlike Cont inental civil law legal systems, but until recentl y the use of Latin tags and Norman French

Right and remedy

Ubi jus , ibi remedium

2 'To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay, right or justice'

3 'Equity will not suffe r a wrong to be without a remedy'

4 'Be you never so high, the law is above you '

5 'Law should be like death, which spares no one'

6 'Where any person has a claim against the Crown after the commencement of this Act .. . the claim may be enforced as of right, and without the fiat of His Majesty, by proceedings taken against the Crown for that purpose in accordance with the provisions of this Act. '