[LAW-LIB:57891] Re: "How Modern Law Makes Us Powerless ..."

From: Ronald Huttner (rshutt@netspace.net.au)
Date: Tue Jan 27 2009 - 18:46:48 PST

  • Next message: Leslie Germaine: "[LAW-LIB:57892] Re: "How Modern Law Makes Us Powerless ...""

    But if all laws and lawyers were abolished how would you continue to
    be a "Solo Practitioner Practicing Worldwide" ?

    Ron Huttner LL.B (Hons)
    (Retired) Barrister, Solicitor, Law Lecturer and Legal Researcher
    Melbourne
    Victoria
    Australia

    On 28/01/2009, at 3:52 AM, Leslie Germaine wrote:

    > Here we stand, facing the worst economy since the Great Depression,
    > and Americans no longer feel free to do anything about it. We have
    > lost the idea, at every level of social life, that people can grab
    > hold of a problem and fix it. Defensiveness has swept across the
    > country like a cold wave. We have become a culture of rule
    > followers, trained to frame every solution in terms of existing law
    > or possible legal risk. The person of responsibility is replaced by
    > the person of caution. When in doubt, don't.
    >
    > An important read.
    >
    > --
    > Leslie Germaine
    > Solo Practitioner
    > Practicing Worldwide
    > ________
    > "We hold this truth to be self-evident, that all men are endowed by
    > their government with the unalienable right to be taxed, subsidized,
    > regulated, lectured, scolded, herded, harassed, and otherwise ruled
    > in whatever ways work." -- Declaration of Dependence
    >



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