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Re:The Mystery of Richard Posner by TheOtherHobbes on Sunday January 22, 2023 @08:17AM (#34477060)
I don't think it can. Even if you banned lawyers from court rooms, rich people would still hire "legal tutors" to prepare for a court appearance.

It's would be better - far from ideal, but marginally better - to increase the number of lawyers in criminal and family law and ban for-profit private representation. All cases would be heard before a random judge and argued by a random public defender and public prosecutor.

The paradox is you can only have perfect justice with perfect surveillance, because that's the only way to eliminate doubt about matters of fact.

Re:The Mystery of Richard Posner by readthenotes1 on Sunday January 22, 2023 @02:46PM (#34481482)
no paradox there. the guardians would then become the privileged class so perfect justice would be available only as long as they allowed