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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.

-- submitted from IRC


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 02 2016, @04:49AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 02 2016, @04:49AM (#382997)

    Different AC here. The "something else" is mentioned in the subject, or so I assumed.