180 ESSAY BEHAVIOURS IN SUPPORT OF THE RULE OF LAW By Anthony Inglese Author LLM, Cambridge University, 1975 The Bar of England and Wales, 1976 and Formerly member of the UK Government Legal Service (but all views expressed here are personal of the author) E-mail: anthony.inglese@btinternet.com Abstract The purpose of the essay is to illustrate importance of behaviours in support of the rule of law in the world of UK government departments. <...> Not only knowledge of the necessary law makes one a good lawyer. <...> Effective behaviours in supporting the rule of law are also very important. <...> Civil servants are bound by the civil service code, which requires them to act with honesty, objectivity, integrity and impartiality. <...> Keywords The rule of law, constitutionalism, government lawyer, UK government, behaviours in support of the rule of law TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction. 181 II. <...> The Structure of Legal Advisory Services within the UK Government . 181 III. <...> Conclusion . 189 Bibliography . 190 www.kulawr.ru Volume 1 December 2014 Issue 2 KUTAFIN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW Anthony Inglese Behaviours in Support of the Rule of Law I. Introduction “The rule of law” is a fi ne-sounding expression, but, without effective behaviours to support it, it means little. <...> I am adopting Lord Bingham’s formulation of the rule of law who said “all persons and authorities within the state, whether public or private, should be bound by and entitled to the benefi t of laws publicly and prospectively promulgated and publicly administered in the courts.” This appears in seminal lecture entitled “The Rule of Law” given by the Rt Hon Lord Bingham of Cornhill KG on November 16, 2006 at the Centre for Public Law, University of Cambridge UK. <...> This article majors on Lord Bingham’s 6th principle. <...> He wrote: “Ministers and public offi cers at all levels must exercise the powers conferred on them reasonably, in good faith, for the purpose for which the powers were conferred, and without exceeding the limits of such powers.” Lord Bingham called this the “core of the rule of law principle.”1 This article shows the real importance of behaviours in support of the rule of law in the world of UK government departments, a world from which I have recently retired after 38 years <...>