Malcolm Kat’s story as described in, “The Law of the Jungle”, is forceful and unforgiving. It’s a David -v- Goliath story. A real life expose of executive overreach, arrogance and greed. All challenged to account by one lone whistle blower. One who ain’t walking away.
Events consume a fourteen year timeline with one battle after another against the system. Procedural failures in the English council system, the police and the judicial institutions are all exposed along the way and are decribed in minute detail to warn the unwary. The eventual realisation being that the written law is fair and reasonable, but that the administration of that written law is now so corrupted that it’s everyday practitioner’s from the professional classes, assume this to be the norm. The problem, they are correct, it has become the norm. So normalised are these actions that the average man on the street, acting for himself, is now almost always set up to lose regardless of right or wrong. This is wholly unjust, but none the less true.
The Law of the Jungle is a true and verifiable account of a system that has lost sight of its purpose of standards and is now controlling our lives without reference to us or the law. The system operates for its own good not for the common justice.
it is an account based on over fourteen prime years of Malcolm’s life and evidence from the contemporaneous notes, letters, hearings, summaries and records. Put together they reveal an overall picture of dirty tricks, sleight of hand secrets, underhand ploys and outrageous abuses of justice. It reveals all the institutional arrogance and judicial overreach that the kafkaesque bureaucratic machine now throws at any unwitting and unrepresented Litigant in person.
Reminiscent of the Sub Post Office scandal or the P& O scandal and the other historic scandals, the narrative pulls back the curtains of reality for the reader to glimpse how bad things have really got. How unjust, how dictatorial the system has now become. It has truly all become, The Law of the Jungle.
It doesn’t have to be this way, but until foundational change happens, it is what it is.
Shame on them all says Malcolm