Persevere...even the snails made it to the Ark!

The Law commands and makes us know
What duties to our God we owe;
But ’tis the Gospel must reveal
Where lies our strength to do His will.

The Law discovers guilt and sin
And shows how vile our hearts have been;
The Gospel only can express
Forgiving love and cleansing grace.

What curses doth the Law denounce
Against the man that fails but once!
But in the Gospel Christ appears,
Pard’ning the guilt of numerous years.

My soul, no more attempt to draw
Thy life and comfort from the Law.
Fly to the hope the Gospel gives;
The man that trusts the promise lives.

Housekeeping issues......the way that offers the best result for the legal profession....

Actuary "Ezekial 25:17 - The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequites of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he that shepherds the weak from the valley of darkness for he is truly his brother's keeper, and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers, and you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."


July 20, 2007

“Do Judges Systematically Favor the Interests of the Legal Profession?”

Finally (via Lattman), some legal scholarship that promises potent explanatory and predictive value, in the form of a forthcoming Alabama Law Review article by University of Tennessee lawprof Benjamin Barton:

Here is my lawyer-judge hypothesis in a nutshell: many legal outcomes can be explained, and future cases predicted, by asking a very simple question: is there a plausible legal result in this case that will significantly affect the interests of the legal profession (positively or negatively)? If so, the case will be decided in the way that offers the best result for the legal profession....

For example, why are lawyers the only American profession to be truly and completely self-regulated? ...

Why is it that the attorney-client privilege is the oldest and most jealously protected of all the professional privileges?...

Why is the Miranda right to consult with an attorney protected so much more fervently than the right to remain silent?...

Lastly, why is a legal malpractice case so much harder to make out than a medical malpractice case?...

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Marilyn Lewis Ruff & Chandra Clack Lewis Carrington

Actuary "Ezekial 25:17 - The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequites of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he that shepherds the weak from the valley of darkness for he is truly his brother's keeper, and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers, and you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."


Nemo judex in sua causa
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Nemo iudex in sua causa is a Latin term which describes the principle of natural justice that no person can judge a case in which he or she is a party. Or, no one is fit to be the judge in his own cause.

May also be called:

* nemo iudex idoneus in propria causa est
* nemo iudex in parte sua
* nemo debet esse iudex in propria causa
* in propria causa nemo iudex

This along with the other principle "No man shall be judged unheard" otherwise put "Reasonable opportunity must be given to an accused, in defending his side of the case" forms the twin rules of natural justice.