Jeff York
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No. That principle was well and truly breached by the concept of the parking ticket, forty-five+ years ago. And by the administrative penalties charged by (say) the Inland Revenue (eg, for not getting your accounts in by a certain date, or even for not keeping trading records). And not least by the concept of the ASBO. In today's world, it is arguable that administrative penalties (with a right of appeal on purely technical grounds) are the only way to deal with low-level offences.
Would it? It is not hard to place it within a plan. It depends, of course, on whether the "illegals" are, for instance, Chinese black-market catering workers heading for Gerrard Street or Southport's chickenle-beaches, or whether they are asylum-seekers who need to present themselves to the authorities asap. It might well pay to take that latter sort to a police station, as long as it is outside the dock area.
The DDA was very effective and did its job *very* well. The American Pit Bull Terrier is now either extinct in the UK or as near to it as one could wish. Don't attribute unintended consequences to that legislation. There were none. It was all intended: the no-quibbling, no-argument automatic destruction of APBTs whose owners were irresponsible (or careless) enough to let them out into the street without a muzzle AND the prevention of breeding.
