Friday, August 29, 2008

Hurry up and wait


Law and politics are strange businesses.



Look at the election we might/may/could/will have despite the fixed(ish) date for an election and the more or less functional Parliament. Gear up for a battle then hold off for now! Even today I am unconvinced there will be an election this Fall (don't worry, I have no insight and no one I know agrees with me).



The Law is just as bad. Trials are scheduled and not held; people get ready for weeks and then get a call 'we have no judge -- come back in 6 months'. And then nothing is scheduled and a trial happens.



Huh?



Well, sitting quietly at my desk for a sleepy Friday, the end of the summer, just before a holiday I get an early morning e-mail.



Basically it said you are the lawyer for someone and we're going to Court in 2 hours to freeze his assets and we want a million dollars or so by noon.



Wow.



I planned to get a haircut this morning but I guess that's out the door!



So here I am in Court ... being told 'come back for 2:00 pm'.



Hurry up and wait!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

And also we ensure that when we enter in this specific blog site we see to it that the topic was cool to discuss and not a boring one.

James C Morton said...

Ouch! Well, I'll try to be cooler!

Anonymous said...

..."cool" could prove to be difficult without that haircut? :-)

Anonymous said...

No. Your cool enough. You have a wide variety of topics which is great. Keep it up!!