British Law

It seems the goverment is specifically out to get us by ways of ignorance. They make the law super complicated and hide it away. Then use the thing thats supposed to protect us, against us by controlling us through fear & lack of knowledge.

Not really. In fact the relationship between government and law is a complicated one.

Up until recently, and still to a degree, the law was the reserve of the Lord Chancellor and his department (formerly the Lord Chancellors Department, then the Department for Constitutional Affairs) which has been effectively subsumed into the Ministry for Justice.

This department is quasi-autonomous from the government through a need to depoliticise the judicial process. As such the appointment to the position of Lord Chancellor is the responsiblity of the monarchal head of state, although this will currently be on the advice of the incumbent Prime Minister. Most importantly the autonomous status applies to that part of the department which is Her Majesty's Court Service.

The complexity of the law is due to a number of reasons, none of which can wholly be blamed on the government and which ever political party is incumbent at the time. Firstly we have one of the oldest judicial systems in the world, the roots of which can be identified to pre-date Roman occupation. Add to that the process of amendments and adjustments that has built up of the years through motions of public interest, public safety, national safety, political engineering and so on and the complications increase. Take, for example the machinations of the reformation era and centuries in the face of invasion by a hostile military force. Furthermore, the process of simplification and streamlining of the law is both complicated and expensive and thus there is a tacit prohibition on doing so without serving a particular over riding interest. Finally there is the adoption of a position in the European Union and the adoption of the the post-war UNDHR, both of which have legal ramifications. Actually that's not really a finally, just my own limits.

To claim that the government complicates the law and hides it away would be to imply a millenia long campaign of obfuscation and persecution of such intricacy that no civil service has every had the wherewithal or competency to acheive.

The main issue now is that, in the digital age that we are now in, is that the law simply isn't accessible in a communication format that we are now familiar with. It's is, ultimately, still access in weighty tomes in intracticable language and reference notes compiled by specialists.