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The second meaning of Dicey’s rule of law states:
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The second meaning of Dicey's rule of law states: "Equality before the law, or the equal subjection of all classes to the ordinary law of the land administrated by the ordinary law courts"1 Here Dicey is saying that we are all not only subject to law, but equal before it, irrespective of our role in the society. The public have more powers under the criminal law and the police and criminal evidence act 1984 for in excess of the citizens.,2 so this conveys that no man is above the law; so the private citizens are under a duty to obey the same law, and that there can not be no special court or administrative tribunal for the state officials.3 The principle of the equality before the law has raised problems for the rule of law. If the law failed to account for social differences and disadvantages, and simply presumed that everyone was equal...
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