What can your country do for the EU? | 39 comments (39 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: What can your country do for the EU? (none / 1)

Do you believe that good lawyers anywhere make their pledges in Spanglish?

Der Amerikaner ist die Orchidee unter den Menschen
Volker Pispers

by Martin (weiser.mensch(at)googlemail.com) on Sat Feb 28th, 2009 at 08:41:39 PM EST
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Re: What can your country do for the EU? (none / 1)

I don't know anything about legal systems, but I would guess that legal proceedings in any given jurisdiction are run using some specified language or languages. Spanglish could be specified.

One might wonder whether an English defendant brought into a court in 1100 would be charged in French or Anglo Saxon or "English." Apparently the answer is that it would be in "Law French."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_French

by asdf on Sat Feb 28th, 2009 at 10:15:29 PM EST
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However a problem emerges when legal language becomes so remote from everyday experience and usage, that only lawyers can understand it fully, and justice becomes estranged from "lawful".

notes from no w here

by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Sun Mar 1st, 2009 at 10:38:59 AM EST
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Frank Schnittger:

However a problem emerges when legal language becomes so remote from everyday experience and usage, that only lawyers can understand it fully, and justice becomes estranged from "lawful".

Isn't that the whole point?

"The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed" William Gibson

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Thu Mar 5th, 2009 at 04:02:25 AM EST
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The whole point of creating a profession - in this case lawyers - is to create an in-club language, barriers to entry and to mystify and exclude the layman.

notes from no w here

by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Thu Mar 5th, 2009 at 11:56:53 AM EST
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What can your country do for the EU? | 39 comments (39 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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