DoomMate

Morphic Korps writer

Writer, TF Fan, The other kind of TF Fan, nerd for superheroics

Major writer for the Morohic Korps setting



kda
@kda

Ace Attorney, but it faithfully follows real Canadian criminal procedure.

The game is 500GB, 495 of which is disclosure, and 200 of which is PDFs of transcripts of wiretapped calls. The PDFs have not been OCR'd. In-game, you need to go through the process of badgering the Crown for disclosure constantly, throwing meticulously-researched letters at them and seemingly never getting all the disclosure you need. You have cited Stinchcombe 8,000 times. "Stinchcombe" no longer sounds like a real name. You forgot to serve a Notice of Constitutional Question. You are now trying to convince the judge that this failure shouldn't be held against your case in any way. The most senior lawyer at the AG's office is now getting involved. You're at court for the application.

The SCC has just, in the past fifteen minutes, released a decision that basically guts your argument from the inside out.


Dragonkat42
@Dragonkat42

Me: This is a post that's right up Grace's alley!
Also me: Realizes after it was Grace who shared it to begin with

Nozomi: [Whoop!]


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in reply to @kda's post:

And somehow, civil litigation is even more like that.

My god. At least there's time limits on criminal stuff. In cases where you don't have one party under obvious, extreme time pressure and their opposing party being forced to keep up the pace by the Charter, things can just drag on forever.

Ah, no, that's the feeling of being an LAA, paralegal, or articled student.

For the distilled essence of being a lawyer, you'd probably want to appear in front of a five-judge panel on an appeal, two of whom clearly think you're an absolute clown just based on your written submissions alone, while running on four hours of sleep.

Sometimes people ask me whether it annoys me how inaccurate legal dramas are to legal practice and I'm like "no, so much of law would make TERRIBLE tv. Even a procedure nerd like me doesn't want to watch a show all about motions practice lol"

We could make it worse:

Also fitting in all the in-office stuff. An entire episode that's all about the inevitable rush to print and assemble five copies of a 3,000 page set of trial binders before 15:30, because of fucking course first chair didn't bother to ask the staff to start preparing them until 72 hours ago.