Even with the apparent certainty you get from code like this, it's still ambiguous without external determination.
Example:
A newborn infant who, after commencement, is found abandoned in the United Kingdom shall, unless the contrary is shown. be deemed for the purposes of subsection (1)
(a) to have been born in the United Kingdom after commencement and
(b) to have been born to a parent who at the time of the birth was a British citizen or settled in the United Kingdom.
Notice the vague wording of this law: "unless the contrary is shown". Shown by whom? To what standard? What must be shown?
Much of this exists in commonlaw case law, but all of that would need to be codified into any sort of deciding program.
Perhaps a society could be built around this, but we'd have to build so. much. infrastructure. to manage the links between case law and overall law.
Example:
A newborn infant who, after commencement, is found abandoned in the United Kingdom shall, unless the contrary is shown. be deemed for the purposes of subsection (1)
Notice the vague wording of this law: "unless the contrary is shown". Shown by whom? To what standard? What must be shown?Much of this exists in commonlaw case law, but all of that would need to be codified into any sort of deciding program.
Perhaps a society could be built around this, but we'd have to build so. much. infrastructure. to manage the links between case law and overall law.