New perjury law may stymie compo culture

A defining requirement in a mature, reliable, and honest society is a trustworthy courts system, one where the rule of law prevails with obvious and sometimes forceful, unsentimental decisions. Without courts willing to protect individuals’ or communities’ rights, mayhem prevails; anarchy, to one degree or another, beckons. Ironically, as we sink deeper and deeper into a post-truth world, the protection of a strong justice system seems ever-more important.

Why else would two of Europe’s nastier leaders — Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and Poland’s Jaroslaw Kaczynski — have tried to bring their courts systems to heel by ‘reforms’ rejected by the EU?