The tired site Slashdot points to this story of a Russian hacker at a software company fighting a pirate in a gym. A brawl apparently erupted in a street market when the hacker saw the pirate punting his company’s offerings. The pirate offered to continue the punch up in a gym, the hacker accepted and the pirate got utterly duffed up for his pains.
Geeklawyer thoroughly approves and has long thought that trial by combat offers the salvation of the legal system and cheap public entertainment to boot. Geeklawyer reckons that if the judge at an allocation hearing was able to dictate that the parties or their barristers had to lather each other in the ring instead of the witness box then all fears of the opening of litigation flood-gates would evaporate.
And the thuggish Geeklawyer would be able to go head to head with David Pannick QC with the no longer faint prospect of success. Of course Mike Tyson might get called to the Bar and then he’d be fucked.
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