Abu Hamza extradition halted .. again
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Zod said:
You can tell a bad lawyer in minutes; he's the one who sits in the meeting or on the call, listens and then tells everyone how difficult and complex the situation is without suggesting any solutions. There are far too many of these idiots around.
Applies equally to more or less any profession and to the general business management practiced by us non-professional plebs.Bad lawyers also produce bad documents. Short is good, but defensive draftsmen produce long and turgid documents. I once did did a case for Roger Moore about "The Saint" and "The Persuaders", which was based on an excellent three page contract made in 1966 and signed with a flourish by Lew Grade. Today, the equivalent contract would be 100 pages of blah.
It can be refreshing to read cases decided circa 1880-1920, when the quality of legal writing was high. Compare and contrast today's inelegant cut and paste judgments.
It can be refreshing to read cases decided circa 1880-1920, when the quality of legal writing was high. Compare and contrast today's inelegant cut and paste judgments.
Breadvan72 said:
Bad lawyers also produce bad documents. Short is good, but defensive draftsmen produce long and turgid documents. I once did did a case for Roger Moore about "The Saint" and "The Persuaders", which was based on an excellent three page contract made in 1966 and signed with a flourish by Lew Grade. Today, the equivalent contract would be 100 pages of blah.
It can be refreshing to read cases decided circa 1880-1920, when the quality of legal writing was high. Compare and contrast today's inelegant cut and paste judgments.
Couldn't agree more. So often you can reduce a whole page of turgid rubbish to five lines or so.It can be refreshing to read cases decided circa 1880-1920, when the quality of legal writing was high. Compare and contrast today's inelegant cut and paste judgments.
Zod said:
Breadvan72 said:
Bad lawyers also produce bad documents. Short is good, but defensive draftsmen produce long and turgid documents. I once did did a case for Roger Moore about "The Saint" and "The Persuaders", which was based on an excellent three page contract made in 1966 and signed with a flourish by Lew Grade. Today, the equivalent contract would be 100 pages of blah.
It can be refreshing to read cases decided circa 1880-1920, when the quality of legal writing was high. Compare and contrast today's inelegant cut and paste judgments.
Couldn't agree more. So often you can reduce a whole page of turgid rubbish to five lines or so.It can be refreshing to read cases decided circa 1880-1920, when the quality of legal writing was high. Compare and contrast today's inelegant cut and paste judgments.
I remember the conveyancing for my first house, done by the the lawyer we then used for business matters - big petrolhead (E-TYpe & Griff 500) and long since retired - where my wife and I sat in his dusty, Dickensian-looking offices and he basically ripped through the contract telling us we didn't need to concern ourselves with any of it, other than about two passages, which he then carefully, succintly summed-up for us and allowed us to consider the implications. No faff, no bluster no bulls
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