Stephen Young

Oct 30, 2023 | theconversation.com | Harry Hobbs |Joe McIntyre |Stephen Young

Judges have described it as “gibberish”, “obvious nonsense”, “largely incoherent, if not incomprehensible” and “gobbledygook”. It involves grand claims like “Magna Carta means you do not need to pay your mortgage”, or “the introduction of decimal currency means income tax is illegal”. It’s the strange and growing phenomenon of pseudolaw. Pseudolaw looks a bit like law. It uses legal texts and sounds kind of like something a lawyer might say. But it does not follow normal legal rules.