• SpaceCowboy@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 years ago

    Agreed. The Common Law system is probably the most oligarchic/aristocratic institution of the Anglo world that no one seems to acknowledge. (Creating law by precedent). I was trained as a lawyer and the answer no matter what the question is “it depends”.

    Yeah people don’t realize that the only reason life was ever good for the common people of the US was because of literally millions of people protesting, organizing and agitating in the late 19th early 20th century.

    Edit: In fact, it is worth noting that the early settlers wanted to very deliberately organize a feudal system - the laws being discretionary is more or less feudal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_Constitutions_of_Carolina

    Also, judges are almost all reactionary, clandestine (corrupt) pieces of shit with enormous conflicts of interest and are to be frank often not very bright and very opinionated (not objective).

    A lot of what makes a “good” lawyer in the common law world is being connected to the judge. (can’t speak to the civil law world). Getting the right judge is 90% of winning a case.