Critically assess that statement with references to appropriate cases and statute and the natural law discussion as to whether an immoral law is or is not a law.

“Preference is given to the positive law, duly enacted and secured by state power as it is, even where it is unjust and fails to benefit the people unless it conflicts with justice reaches so intolerable a level that a statute becomes in effect false law and must therefore yield to justice where there is not even an attempt at justice, where equality the core of justice is deliberately betrayed in the issuance of positive law then the statute is not merely false law it lacks completely the very nature of law.”

Critically assess that statement with references to appropriate cases and statute and the natural law discussion as to whether an immoral law is or is not a law.