Wednesday, August 31, 2011

If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country...

one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected--those, precisely, who need the law's protection most!--and listens to their testimony.

James Baldwin

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

" One goes to the unprotected--those, precisely, who need the law's protection most!"

In the Ontario civl justice system few litigants need "the law's protection" more than brain injured auto accident victims. Yet they are among the most abused by shoddy plaintiff lawyering, bad- faith insurer adjusters, and medicolegal experts who earn their entire living as professional witnesses selling "favourable" expert opinions to auto insurers. The problem is the sheer volume of brain injury cases tainted with unqualified "expert" testimony. That there are so many victims of wrongful decisions based on unchecked, unchallenged, unqualified "expert" opinion evidence is a large part of the reason they will never be investigated (like the Charles Smith and Gregory Carter cases were). The auto insurance regulator - FSCO - stubbornly refuses to even acknowledge any such cases exist. So despite your post - nobody will be helping these "unprotected" victims of Ontario's civil justice system anytime soon. Some have been kept in the dark for over a decade. I guess the layers and FSCO arbitrators figure if enough time passes their collective abuse of the former brain injured litigants ceases to matter. It is a sad disgrace. But the lawyers are polite to a fault. A perfect example of etiquette trumping ethics.

redman said...

Actually your comment proves Morton's point. Our 'justice' system sucks and our entire society is based on patriarchy and oppression. Maybe he's part of it (I'm never sure which side he's on) but Morton is right this time.

Anonymous said...

It was James Baldwin's point - not Morton's. I can never figure out what side Morton is on either - but Im beginning to think he's pretty much on his own side. Nor can I figure out why he keeps tossing out these "quotable quotes" without any accompanying comment. I think Baldwin would be on the side of the many brain injured litigants who have been victimized by wrongful decisions. I'm not convinced Morton gives a rat's ass.

E.J. Guiste said...

Indeed - and if one wishes to fix it one must speak to them too.

Anonymous said...

"one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class."


If you go back and look at Morton's blog in the past 2 years, you will see that I have asked him why there are no BIG SHITS in jail here in Canada.


He just answered the question.

The judges, police, protected middle class, and the elite establishment WILL NEVER GO TO JAIL.

We live in a corrupt society where "equal justice under the law" is unheard of.

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