The lawyers have quite a cartel going. It's illegal to do your own legal work in many instances. They have politicians lined up to make more laws and hordes of voters who want more laws. Political parties who say. READ MY LIPS, NO NEW LAWS will not be elected. Politicians think there needs to be a law for everything.
They are the bossy brats of age 2 I see at play groups hitting other children, grabbing all the stuff for themselves, bossing other children around, breaking things. They learn to cover up their inclinations as they age and bump up against other people more, but it's still their nature, like recidivist alcoholics.
I have hired expensive lawyers twice now and they were a bargain. Normally, if legal, I do my own legal work. But sometimes when the stakes are large, a downtown lawyer at about floor 20 or higher, is needed to sort out the IRD or a contract.
The problem is the absurd laws. Absurdly complex, arcane, arbitrary, mutually exclusive, in profusion.
The legal experts themselves don't know or understand the law. I had to correct a lawyer and a judge on what the law was [during a trial - I had the law handy so could show the judge so he could read it himself]. Then they go up the appeals process with various levels of judges reversing each other, making it up as they go with some persiflage and cant.
I learned how hopeless they are when aged about 16 [the Supreme Court of NZ handled a case my parents brought against a school]. I read the judgment and thought how hopeless it was. I had expected rationality at least.
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