In a recent post entitled “Will No One Rid Me of this Meddlesome Priest?” I highlighted ‘Tone at the Top’ by discussing the words of Henry II leading to the subsequent murder of Thomas Becket. One of the things I learned on my recent vacation to England was that Henry II developed many of the procedural safeguards which became the basis of Anglo-American jurisprudence. While English Kings, at least after William the Conqueror, had always been able to issue Writs to direct the King’s subjects to perform tasks, Henry II developed certain standardized Writs which could be utilized to determine disputes between the King’s subjects, in a more fair and judicial manner. So today we will honor Henry II by discussing how he helped to bring procedural fairness to English law and how that relates to modern day compliance program.
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