Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hmmm--I appended my reply to the wrong message??? Allan On Tuesday, March 26, 2002, at 06:19 PM, Allan Wafkowski wrote: > The lawyer is an agent of the court. He or she is an integral part of > our legal system. If you suffer from that, you can change it by your > vote. > > Allan > > > On Tuesday, March 26, 2002, at 04:35 PM, John Brownlow wrote: >> On 3/26/02 3:41 PM, "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com> wrote: >> >>> Yeah, but what does that have to do with lawyers? Why isn't that >>> about laws >>> and the enforcment there of? >> >> Laws... Lawyers.... Think there might be a connection?? >> >> The criminal law is 'enforced' by the police, but civil law which >> deals with >> wrongs rather than crimes is decided by civil courts. >> >> If you negligently drop a piano on my car, it isn't a criminal >> offence, but >> I need some form of redress, no? >> >> Unless you think that court cases should be decided without lawyers, >> ie by >> people who are ignorant of the law, lawyers are a Very Good Thing IMO. >> >> One might as well insist that everybody mend their own cars and make >> all >> their own clothes as insist that people go to law on their own. >> >> -- >> John Brownlow >> >> http://www.pinkheadedbug.com >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >> > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html