Mariana Aceves has extensive experience assisting clients with legal matters in the UK, focusing on careful preparation of documents, clear explanation of procedures, and practical support throughout their cases. Drawing on her background in UK legal practice, she helps clients understand their rights, prepares detailed paperwork, liaises with relevant organisations, and supports them through negotiations and hearings, always aiming for outcomes that are realistic and cost‑effective. Mariana is not authorised or regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, and she therefore provides her services in a non‑reserved capacity, making clear to clients the scope and limits of the assistance she can lawfully offer within the UK legal framework.​

Daniel Moreau is an experienced EU advocate specialising in cross‑border legal matters and advisory work within the European Union framework. He focuses on helping clients understand how EU and national laws interact, particularly in areas where decisions of EU institutions and the primacy of EU law directly affect their rights, obligations and commercial activities. Daniel is not authorised or regulated as a solicitor by the Solicitors Regulation Authority in the UK and provides his services as a consultant.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.The Old Testament dates back to 1280 BC and takes the form of moral imperatives as recommendations for a good society. The small Greek city-state, ancient Athens, from about the 8th century BC was the first society to be based on broad inclusion of its citizenry, excluding women and the slave class.

However, Athens had no legal science or single word for “law”, relying instead on the three-way distinction between divine law (thémis), human decree (nomos) and custom (díkē). Yet Ancient Greek law contained major constitutional[disambiguation needed] innovations in the development of democracy.Roman law was heavily influenced by Greek philosophy, but its detailed rules were developed by professional jurists and were highly sophisticated.

Over the centuries between the rise and decline of the Roman Empire, law was adapted to cope with the changing social situations and underwent major codification under Theodosius II and Justinian I.Although codes were replaced by custom and case law during the Dark Ages, Roman law was rediscovered around the 11th century when medieval legal scholars began to research Roman codes and adapt their concepts.

Latin legal maxims (called brocards) were compiled for guidance. In medieval England, royal courts developed a body of precedent which later became the common law. A Europe-wide Law Merchant was formed so that merchants could trade with common standards of practice rather than with the many splintered facets of local laws.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.The philosophy of law is commonly known as jurisprudence. Normative jurisprudence asks “what should law be?”, while analytic jurisprudence asks “what is law?” John Austin’s utilitarian answer was that law is “commands, backed by threat of sanctions, from a sovereign, to whom people have a habit of obedience”.

Natural lawyers on the other side, such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, argue that law reflects essentially moral and unchangeable laws of nature. The concept of “natural law” emerged in ancient Greek philosophy concurrently and in connection with the notion of justice, and re-entered the mainstream of Western culture through the writings of Thomas Aquinas, notably his Treatise on Law.

Hugo Grotius, the founder of a purely rationalistic system of natural law, argued that law arises from both a social impulse—as Aristotle had indicated—and reason.Immanuel Kant believed a moral imperative requires laws “be chosen as though they should hold as universal laws of nature”. Jeremy Bentham and his student Austin, following David Hume, believed that this conflated the “is” and what “ought to be” problem. Bentham and Austin argued for law’s positivism; that real law is entirely separate from “morality”.Kant was also criticised by Friedrich Nietzsche, who rejected the principle of equality, and believed that law emanates from the will to power, and cannot be labelled as “moral” or “immoral”.