A good time to study law
Yippee! I feel a LOT more confident about getting a job as a solicitor at the end of my degree after seeing this:
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Let’s hope the trend continues, for my sake…
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I still think that weathering away old rules is the way to solve this.
http://alsblog.wordpress.com/2006/10/28/weathering-away-old-rules/
I’m not sure wishing reams of legislation onto your friends, for your own benefit, is a morally sound form of rational self interest!
Nice graph Sukrit!
I may steal it (sourced, of course)
As long as Sukrit is not working on the side of creating more regulations his future career as a lawyer is ethical – companies are better off having lawyers protect them from all these excessive laws than not. This is how I justify my own existence as essentially an antitrust consultant.
I actually think you will probably have a more exciting time, and almost certainly will make more money, fighting legislation and bureaucracy than making a career in being creative or producing something. Might be a sad reflection on modern society but I think it’s true.
They are now using lawyers instead of lab rats for testing new pharmaceuticals. There are three reasons for this:
1. There are more of them
2. The lab staff don’t get attached to them
3. There are some things you just can’t get rats to do
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers”
- William Shakespeare, King Henry VI
Hopefully that’s the left side of the distrubtion, and we have only deletion to follow.
Good work, Jason! Your name makes it so easy to promote you, I’ll bet!
“When can you tell us who’s got the job?”
“Soon!”
“What, Jason, AGAIN?!!”
And I do hope that Peter Cline is your role model!
Sukrit- the graph is levelling out! You might have missed out on the bandwagon. Of course, if Kevin the Red gets into government, you’re made!
A French journalist, F. Bastiat put it this way: “The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish!”
Now who could disagree with this other than a lawyer?
Solution to the problem. Matches and petrol…
An anti-trust lawyer, isn’t that an tautology?
As a “constitutionalist” and an Attorney, not being a lawyer having just defeated after a 5-year legal battle federal government lawyers on all constitutional issues UNCHALLENGED, I wonder what they teach at law school to those lawyers?
I recall an incident (how can I forget) where I represented a couple against their daughter (who had several law degrees) when the daughter put to the Court that she was “disadvantaged” because she claimed I had a better experience of the legal processes. OK, the judicial officer had to keep avoiding laughing about this claim and she was totally defeated, but it was to me a bit strange for this woman to make such a claim. Still, I can never forget this, as after her father passed away I married her mother and so now I am surely reminded about this “little girl” (OK she was then already about 40 years old) having her two-year-old kind of tantrum in Court, albeit it didn’t help her a bit.
When I look at the High Court of Australia, for example, how they appoint lawyers to become judges of this court who at times have absolutely no perception let alone competence in constitutional matters then it come out how they are fooling around with constitutional provisions as if they are seeking to get of a client of a charge rather then presenting a very logical presentation as to what the intentions of the Framers was about, etc. Then again, as Author of the INSPECTOR-RIKATI® books on certain constitutional and other legal matters I would have little to do if they were doing a proper job. It is sickening how they deal with constitutional issues, and it is fun to see what a fools they make of themselves trying to ….(word left out-you can guess it) the population with their nonsense.
See also my website http://www.schorel-hlavka.com
As such, the more legislation is introduced the more material I can file in Court in support of a case and the more likely the judicial officer (judge, etc) may dismiss the charges or find there is no jurisdiction. In one case I produced it on CD but next time I might use a DVD to include all documentation as a DVD holds more.
Just consider the trial judge ordering the Director of Public Prosecutions to respond to all material that I had placed on CD (for the Defendant). He indicated not wanting to do so and the judge made clear he would make formal orders for this. He did. Well, after months having passed he never did so and we now pursue that the DPP be dealt with for CONTEMPT OF COURT. (OK, THIS IS FUN BUT NOT LIKELY GOING TO HAPPEN)
In 1985 I designed a document titled “ADDRESS TO THE COURT”
See my 1-11-2003 publication;
INSPECTOR-RIKATI® & ADDRESS TO THE COURT
A book on CD, making litigation a more level playing field
ISBN 0-9580569-7-8 (After 1-1-2007; ISBN 978-0-9580569-7-7
This book sets out how the document is now used in all levels of Courts in civil and criminal cases!
Now, who says litigation isn’t fun?
Lets have more legislation and I might have to use several DVD’s to get it all on to file in Court, such as to Challenge the courts Jurisdiction. By the time they finish dealing with it, we all are long death and buried due to old age!
The message is that the more they legislate the more fun you can have reversing it and use it against the lawyers, the Government and the Courts.
Great post Mr GHS-H. It’s like Jarndyce -v- Jarndyce LOL.