If you have an Irish surname...

[SueEllen]

oh they don't like us much, which is why they don't recognise our laws until they want to i.e. it is to their advantage.

Do we recognise their laws?

[NotAllThere]

Do we recognise their laws?

No. But that's to be expected in a modern society. For the same reason Sharia isn't recognised as legal. Despite some ill-informed people occasionally claiming it is.

[psychocandy]

Keeps Ben Stokes away as well....

[Gibbon]

Do we recognise their laws?

Unless you can show some written constitution, they have no law just arbitrary customs

[SueEllen]

Unless you can show some written constitution, they have no law just arbitrary customs

We don't have a written constitution in the UK so why should travelling folk have one?

[vetran]

I just suddenly realised its a busman's holiday!

Travellers booking a break in a mobile home

[SueEllen]

No. But that's to be expected in a modern society. For the same reason Sharia isn't recognised as legal. Despite some ill-informed people occasionally claiming it is.

The matter is complicated - https://fullfact.org/law/uks-sharia-courts/

[SueEllen]

I just suddenly realised its a busman's holiday!

Travellers booking a break in a mobile home

Apparently they now have bungalows as well as apartments.

[Gibbon]

We don't have a written constitution in the UK so why should travelling folk have one?

Sorry lazy wording, we do have written law though, in numerous acts of parliament and also in case law.

To make a new

Act of Parliament

, the highest form of law, both Houses must read, amend, or approve proposed legislation three times and the monarch must give their consent. The judiciary interprets and develops the law found in Acts of Parliament or previous cases.

If you are ever bored:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consti...om#Rule_of_law