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mandragoraHave just turned over from Heroes and have watched a mere 5 (count 'em, 5) minutes of LAW & Order UK.
So far, the CPS have invited a couple of defendants and the solicitor into the CPS offices for a plea bargain, with a certainty of the sentence to be served if they plead guilty. Which is just... No!
And Freema's been running round the streets of London interviewing a witness, in the street! Words fail me.
5 minutes, that's all. And that 5 minutes is enough to establish that it bears no resemblance to the actual practice of law.
Oh, they've just got one of the defendants in with the same solicitor who represented both defendants earlier but not with the other defendant and are offering him (one of the defendants) a bargain if he'll testify against the other defendant. Oh, 'cos that's not a conflict of interest at all, is it on the part of the solicitor?
Crap. Complete crap. It's been...8 minutes now and that's enough to establish that it may rival Judge John Deed for badness. *cries*
So far, the CPS have invited a couple of defendants and the solicitor into the CPS offices for a plea bargain, with a certainty of the sentence to be served if they plead guilty. Which is just... No!
And Freema's been running round the streets of London interviewing a witness, in the street! Words fail me.
5 minutes, that's all. And that 5 minutes is enough to establish that it bears no resemblance to the actual practice of law.
Oh, they've just got one of the defendants in with the same solicitor who represented both defendants earlier but not with the other defendant and are offering him (one of the defendants) a bargain if he'll testify against the other defendant. Oh, 'cos that's not a conflict of interest at all, is it on the part of the solicitor?
Crap. Complete crap. It's been...8 minutes now and that's enough to establish that it may rival Judge John Deed for badness. *cries*
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Date: 23 February 2009 22:44 (UTC)And you know, I still had hopes before tonight that they'd manage to pull it off.
On the joint representation front it is just about possible to represent joint clients when there's no possibility of a conflict. But that's pretty rare in criminal cases as you can no doubt imagine and of course it would be impossible to continue to represent either one of them at the point that the prosecution is trying to persuade one to testify against the other. And it would never be done in the way it was in the episode, anyway.