sofaofthedamned

Keep your head down tomorrow and say nothing without legal representation...

OK, here's one. My brother-in-law is a corporate attorney in the UK, and i've never got a satisfactory answer off him.

Here, we distrust lawyers, or solicitors as we call them, or the rest of the legal system. Like bankers, there is the air of money grabbing aloofness about them, as if they live somewhere else and smell different air than we do.

Occasionally you see something that breaks this perception. Popehat is one of them. It reminds you that legal people are human beings, you can engage with them as you would somebody else in the pub. Then you read about countless crazy judges in the news and you sigh again.

My question is - is there a possibility of a grass roots movement in your industry to engage more with the public, such as what you're doing? The public knowing more about the internal machinations of law would be good, as would the legal system being quicker as identifying what pisses the common man off.

I just read a story in my local news about a guy who coughed to over 100 burglaries, who got given a suspended sentence - again. Is the judge mad? Do the solicitors involved think this is nuts? The public doesn't know, surely engaging directly with them would help?

Thanks for the blog Ken!

You've managed to explain what my girlfriend is saying when she's banging on about why I should get into wine thank you!

Hey Ken - love the blog. However, i'm British and live in England, therefore i'd really like somebody like you over here to do the same. Our legal world is almost as messed-up as yours.