Posts by mark taslov
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Nope:
2b/9k= 222k
For every lawyer in private practise you will see an average of two additional, non-lawyer, staff. +premises and other overheads.
Yes, my shocking, got a little over excited there, as by the looks of it, that's still over three times what most teachers earn.
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Thank you Logan
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$2b/9k=$222,222,222.2*
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Thanks Logan, that clears up a lot for me, I'm left with one further query, if you could direct me up the right avenue. How much of this $2-3billion comes from business?
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Thanks for replying again ScottY.
I guess we'll just have to disagree on this one. You clearly have a view that the state can be trusted and can be relied on to get it right. I have the view that if you concentrate too much power in the state that power is likely to be abused.
Not necessarily, as I'm not convinced I disagree with you, almost everything you've said seems thoroughly reasonable to me, I would be one of the last to argue that the state can be trusted and can be relied on to get it right. Essentially I'm just interested in a feasibility check. As you said;
Most lawyers don't do court work. They're mostly property lawyers, or commercial lawyers, or patent attorneys etc. Even litigators don't spend that much time in the courtroom.
The Information I'm trying to garner from you is, how many lawyers are there, and what is a rough average weekly workload irrespective of their visibility or specialty
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As Russell said Islander,
I don't think there's a different law for celebrities so much as an enormous advantage in being able to afford a top-notch defence.
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hence, trial by combat.
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Personally I have no real issues with juries Islander, merely that I was considering a way to help subsidize a state provided legal system, to ensure the poor get as fair a go as the rich. My thoughts on juries are pretty benign. My main misgivings wold simply be, there is no required standard of education or intelligence required to serve on a Jury, and I've been pretty disturbed by instances of a friend doing jury service, who in the end didn't really know, had a guy feeling, but gave up on that gut feeling, because they got sick and tired of dealing with what they interpreted to be malevolent misguided fundamentalism by a majority of your peers.
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You dislike my views Islander because you don't see a lawyer as your peer.