In the new world order, we can no longer be complacent or rely on the mother state or the international community to protect us from the everyday perils we face as citizens in the modern world. We have to be proactive as individuals and appreciate the important role and opportunity we have to shape modern society.
The law has always been the tool for individuals to shape the society in which they live. But governments’ changing priorities have altered the traditional landscape of responsibility for justice, envisaged under the ancient social contract between a state and its people. Today’s government and society positively rely on (and even encourage) the individual to seek private justice through the law, in order to achieve social objectives the modern state cannot deliver.
