Why Or Why Not Do You Believe Lawyers Are Important For A Society To Function?

[malzahno]

I am doing a project for school and would like others impout on this topic.

[Barmaid]

Sloopy, plea answered. I am giving up the law to do cooking and gardening instead ;)

[tonyav]

and car washing bm?.

[Barmaid]

Bog off, Tony!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tonyav]

That is also a legal term that I am well acquainted with BM.

[Eve]

Dogged pursuance is a very different thing to expert legal argument though and the latter can often get matters resolved quicker and more efficiently, or at all.

[Barmaid]

lol, thought you would understand it ;)

I have a good friend and criminal practitioner colleague whose favourite saying is "the F*****g F****r is F*****g F****ed".

[Barmaid]

well said Eve. A qualified lawyer can often cut to the chase very quickly and said a shed load of money in wasted time and applications.

[tonyav]

I have a good friend and criminal practitioner colleague whose favourite saying is "the F*****g F****r is F*****g F****ed".

Yes BM, that particular legal phrase has been quoted to me in the past lol.

[Eve]

One of my former landlords once asked me why I was bothering with all the legal study malarkey as he said I'd make someone a lovely little housewife one day!

[sunny-dave]

Tricky isn't it ...

... for example, I keep seeing advice on here that you should "do it yourself and save paying a solicitor" when people are talking about Probate.

And for simple estates (like my mum's was) with a reasonably diligent executor who can read/understand/follow a legal process (as I did) that is excellent advice.

But if either of the two provisos don't apply then you can be in big bother. All it needs is a complicated will, lots of weird and wonderful assets, disputatious legatees (or indeed non-legatees) and/or a slapdash executor and the cost of a solicitor pales into insignificance against the scope for DiY cock-ups.

Like all professional services you need to decide what/who is worth paying for - the trick is knowing how to make that decision.


< btw Barmaid, your recent advice on my thread about Distribution Of Assets Before Death has been just amazingly useful - thank you again and a large drink will be waiting for you in sunny Warwickshire when you next get here >

[humbersloop]

eve, I suspect the word pudding may also figure in some lawyers' vocabulary

[FredPuli43]

Ah, that's the language of the criminal bar, all right. They learn it from the clients, you know. The civil practitioners say things like "The answer is spherical, and they bounce". And the Chancery bar says "Bog off", which must be old Law French or something.

[boxtops]

OP'll wish he never asked.....

[Eve]

The old adage comes into play, in many respects, in procuring professional services, you get what you pay for, essentially buying training, experience, skill etc...

[humbersloop]

blimey! that's the first time I've been swear filtered out..


..I never said pudding, honest guv

[Eve]

I'm so glad you posted...I was getting very confused haha! :)

[sunny-dave]

I put it to you Ms Sloop that you did in fact say 'pudding' and are now trying to pretend that you actually said titterfarkle

[chrissa1]

I come from a "legal" family. My late father was a solicitor, my brother is a solicitor and my sister-in-law is a barrister.
I feel my father would be appalled at the way the legal world is being run these days. I remember hearing him, many times say to his cashier who had told him, Mrs So and So hadn't paid her bill....."Oh, she'll pay in time, she's having a tough time of it lately." That wouldn't happen now.

My late husband and I had to employ a Barrister once and it was mesmerising watching his legal brain working, as he got to the "nub" of our case so succinctly.

We need Solicitors and Barristers.

[Eve]

Going back to the OP though, maybe you could think about how society could function if the lawyers all disappeared - the impact on the justice system and even just the simple contract - laws, contracts and deeds are so intrinsic in our society from general laws themselves to infrastructure, services, utilities, employment...the list is huge!

[humbersloop]

it's a fair cop..

..I could've been a judge, but I never had the latin