Free from Rome's oversight, competition in banking opened up simply by removing the proscription on lending.

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Reducing the risks and profits that proscription brings to traders might eliminate the violence that often accompanies drug dealing.

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Mr Brunstrom said there is no particularly sound logic to the pattern of proscription created by Britain's 1971 drugs legislation.

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Compare a contractum trinius to a murabaha contract, a structured financial product offered by Islamic banks as a way around the Koran's proscription of riba, or usury.

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If Noboa does not address these needs for change that Ecuador requires, it will be Correa who will hijack this momentum and he will do so by following the Chavez model which is a proscription for populist authoritarianism.

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But Mohan Peiris, the attorney-general, said in an interview that new regulations are to be promulgated under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) to provide for the continued proscription of the Tigers and a fresh regime for holding detainees.

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