Accio 2005 press release: new Guest Speaker and Trial of Snape

[Someone]

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> SSSusan mused:
> Hmmm.  Can others who're more well versed in the law in other 
nations 
> (particularly in the UK) let us know whether the oft-stated-in-
America 
> remark, "Ignorance of the law is no excuse" holds?  
> 
> "I was young, I didn't know any better" would not, methinks, get a 
> person very far in a court of law, especially when the young 
person 
> was, presumably, of legal age, even if just barely so.
> 
> Just a thought.
> 

John:
I live all the way down here in Australia, the legal system of which 
is based on the UK's, and, yes, those same sentiments tend to hold 
here as well. 

A rather better excuse would be required, I'm afraid.

John.