Being a good advocate

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Anonymous said...: The most dishonest professions are rated in a Gallup survey.

The results? You guessed it. According to the study, car salesman are considered the least honest professionals on earth. The bottom five:

1. Car salesman

2. Ad men

3. Politicians

4. Lawyers

5. Business executives

“A Barrister or lawyer, is someone only other pettifoggers can trust” would have been a better statement. Your perpetual attempts at face-lifting this decrepit group confirms my suspicions of your state of delusion and how distant you reside from the realities of the rest of the human family.; April 24, 2012 at 4:54 AM
Antony Canaii said...: I read, with surprise, your view that

'The court should have no hesitation in relying completely on what is argued or stated as the truth, based on facts and not information that turns out to be false'.

Let us not forget that advocacy is speaking on behalf of another person. In the legal context this invariably means putting forward ones client's version of events or facts. Such a version of events or facts may or may not be true. It is not the role of the advocate to decide - merely to put forward the best case possible, based on instructions.

The Courts certainly do not believe everything that an advocate says, because, in the main, it is the client who tells the advocate what to say - the advocate decides how to best say it.

Antony (Augustin) Canaii; May 3, 2012 at 7:46 PM