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posted by cmn32480 on Monday August 01 2016, @03:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the maybe-Shakespeare-was-right dept.

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

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Monday August 01 2016, @04:13AM (#382469)

    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.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Bot on Monday August 01 2016, @07:47AM

    by Bot (3902) on Monday August 01 2016, @07:47AM (#382524) Journal

    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

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 01 2016, @06:45PM (#382739)

    A (Catholic) historian says [catholiceducation.org]:

    Because it was both professional and efficient, the Spanish Inquisition kept very good records.

    ... Most people accused of heresy by the medieval Inquisition were either acquitted or their sentence suspended. Those found guilty of grave error were allowed to confess their sin, do penance, and be restored to the Body of Christ.

    ... By the 14th century, the Inquisition represented the best legal practices available. Inquisition officials were university-trained specialists in law and theology.

    N.B. this was before Torquemada was appointed.