Talk:Entick v. Carrington
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[edit] Suggestions
The case is very important in both UK and US law, it is cited regularly in modern cases. I think that more should be said about it's effect. In particular, how it pre-empted the "right of privacy", and how it was one way the early courts enforced fundamental Human Rights before the ECHR or the HRA.
Should more be said about the Rule of Law in this article as well?? --RawEgg 01:15, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Facts of case are simply wrong
Sorry if I sound like someone with an attitude, but the source cited contradicts the summary of the case given in the article!
... the earl before the trespass on the 6th of November 1762, made his warrant under this hand and seal directed to the defendants, by which the earl did in the king’s name authorize and require the defendants, taking a constable to their assistance, to make strict and diligent search for the plaintiff, mentioned in the said warrant to be the author, or one concerned in the writing of several weekly very seditious papers intitled, "The Monitor or British Freeholder, No 357, 358, 360, 373, 376, 378, and 380, London, printed to J. Wilson and J. Fell in Paternoster Row,"...
The raid on Entick, the author of The Monitor, took place just a few months before the raid on The North Briton, but they really shouldn't be confused!
Anyhow, sorry to bitch instead of edit, but I'd want to research this one just a little bit more before writing, and I'm still busy with The North Briton. --WilkesAndLiberty!
P.S. Just hacked something together anyhow.
