i was arrested on an unarrestable offence without a warrant and held without cause more than a year ago, and the statutes in this country have forced me to:

1) defer the issue to the police force that arrested me (which is absurd)
2) ask a civilian body (that is explicitly not trained to deal with this) to review the decision of the police force (which is equally absurd)
3) only allow for a request for judicial review after receiving the report from the civilian body.

i have experienced months worth of delays, in the process.

an illegal arrest is a breakdown in the rule of law, by definition.

as such, i have not been able to get anybody with any kind of substantive legal training to look at what is clearly a collapse in the rule of law, allowing the police to break the law with impunity.

and, if this continues, it is going to be a constitutional right challenge, because i need to be able to get this in front of a judge, in the end. this cannot be left up to an unelected body with no training. that would be despotic - it would be like living in iran.