In this chapter, an attempt is made to assess the compatibility of the current sanctions regime with the ‘rule of law’. Using Tom Bingham’s eight ‘rule of law’ principles as a template, the number of counts on which the current sanctions regime in the UK appears not to satisfy these principles indicates that there are serious questions about its conformity with the rule of law, in addition to the serious questions about its effectiveness, humanity and injustice. Another characterisation of the rule of law would, no doubt, produce different conclusions but, on the evidence presented in this chapter, it is clear that there is something very wrong with the current sanctions regime.