Burning issue: how the law separates the elite from the ordinary citizen

IF I defied a Supreme Court injunction and then burned evidence in defiance of a subsequent court order, I wonder what would become of me.

Burning issue: how the law separates the elite from the ordinary citizen

Doubtless I would be cooling my heels in Mountjoy prison filling out a loan application form to pay the massive fine imposed.

But how will the judiciary deal with the national newspaper editor who has done exactly this?

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