[LINK] Legal processes are not obvious [was: "Men at work" up a gum tree]

[Roger Clarke]

At 9:44 +1100 5/2/10, Stephen Wilson wrote:
>  ... but it's really not fair to label anyone an "idiot" in this
>particular case.

Has anyone done that?

The words I used were carefully chosen:

       "either the judge, or the law, is a total idiot"

Firstly that provides some defence against a charge of contempt of court.

But mainly it allows for the possibility that the *judge* thinks that 
the law is a total idiot, and has written his judgement in such a 
manner as to invite a superior court to sort it out.

(Judges are not in a position to confirm or deny such speculation 
while they're on the bench.  And regrettably few of them ever provide 
clarification in their memoirs either).

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