Private Business. – in the House of Commons am ar 7 Rhagfyr 1926.
Colonel Sir Arthur Holbrook
, Basingstoke
I beg to ask leave to present a petition from 43 branches of the National Citizens' Union in various parts of the country. The petition contains 10,321 signatures, and the petitioners ask that the trade union Laws may be amended so as to restore the liberty of the British working man to work or withhold his labour as he himself thinks fit.
A group of workers who have united to promote their common interests.
Laws are the rules by which a country is governed. Britain has a long history of law making and the laws of this country can be divided into three types:- 1) Statute Laws are the laws that have been made by Parliament. 2) Case Law is law that has been established from cases tried in the courts - the laws arise from test cases. The result of the test case creates a precedent on which future cases are judged. 3) Common Law is a part of English Law, which has not come from Parliament. It consists of rules of law which have developed from customs or judgements made in courts over hundreds of years. For example until 1861 Parliament had never passed a law saying that murder was an offence. From the earliest times courts had judged that murder was a crime so there was no need to make a law.
