Original URL: http://www.cnet.com/news/judge-recommends-online-court-without-lawyers/
[...] You're in a dispute over money. It's not a vast amount of money, but sometimes it's precisely these sorts of disputes that incite the highest emotions.
You feel cheated, robbed.
But then you have to hire a lawyer to defend you. Which is a cost and guarantees you nothing.
So Lord Justice Briggs, a senior British judge, has come up with a new solution: an online court for civil cases featuring claims of less than £25,000 (around $32,850).
This online court is part of his recommendations for reforming the British justice system. Yes, the one that Brits are always telling you is perfect.
The idea is that there would be user-friendly rules and that lawyers would be largely, or even entirely, superfluous.
There's another characteristic of an online court that moves the judge. He says it would be "less adversarial, more investigative."
Perhaps the lord justice has yet to acquaint himself with the interpersonal and expository skills of many who frequent Twitter and other internet forums.
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(Score: 4, Informative) by PartTimeZombie on Monday August 01 2016, @04:13AM
Yes, the one that Brits are always telling you is perfect.
Who said that? Cnet don't specify, but I've never heard anyone ever say their legal system was perfect.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Bot on Monday August 01 2016, @07:47AM
Italian legal system is perfect. 2x the number of laws of other systems, new laws distributed as diffs of previous laws, drug dealers with VIP passes to the parliament hall, national security invoked when somebody wants to investigate whether a deal with cosa nostra by a minister took place, illegal laws passed having an ordinary citizen going wtf and escalating the issue to the supreme court who says yep this shit is not costitutional...
I mean, perfect for a surreal comedy.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 01 2016, @06:45PM
A (Catholic) historian says [catholiceducation.org]:
N.B. this was before Torquemada was appointed.