A Court-Free Alternative for Reparative and Transformational Justice Our current legal system has a grip on virtually every aspect of life. As we emerge from our collective ordeal to recreate our new, improved society, let’s design an enlightened system that optimizes outcomes for all parties while addressing underlying causes and systems that lead to conflicts to heal the web of society.
Like Dickens in "Bleak House," your appraisal of chancery is compelling and insightful, Diane.
There is, it seems to me, an important role for solutions that can be implemented outside of the ordinary legal framework. That said, there is a very good reason that the ideal of an impartial adjudication under law exists.
To illustrate, I urge folks to contemplate the coercive power of social workers and mental health experts. Increasing that power is extremely dangerous. Many of their interventions are effectively irreversible. A mistake in judgement can result in disability or even death.
We must be very careful to impose limits on any increase of coercive power wielded arbitrarily.
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change
something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." All well and good provided both sides want to change to system - and for the better of both sides. Sorry for sounding a pessimist (I prefer realist) but those who are gaining from the existing system (increasingly tilted in their favour) don't want change. I suspect we have to make THEM obsolete, because - last time - we didn't eradicate all of them, thereby enabling the dregs to go into hibernation mode while they regrouped and recalibrated their game plan.
I love the possibilities of this. It stops making 'legal' an expensive word game. Would this also work with, say, big Pharma when they have been fined, or others (tobacco industry, pesticide industry, emf businesses, etc) who have lied in legal processes?
Thought provoking. Wonderful optimistic model. We need more of this type of instance in the world.
Love it, such a beautiful story.
Like Dickens in "Bleak House," your appraisal of chancery is compelling and insightful, Diane.
There is, it seems to me, an important role for solutions that can be implemented outside of the ordinary legal framework. That said, there is a very good reason that the ideal of an impartial adjudication under law exists.
To illustrate, I urge folks to contemplate the coercive power of social workers and mental health experts. Increasing that power is extremely dangerous. Many of their interventions are effectively irreversible. A mistake in judgement can result in disability or even death.
We must be very careful to impose limits on any increase of coercive power wielded arbitrarily.
Beautiful visionary practical model for conflict resolution! Question - who pays the conflict resolution team?
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change
something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." All well and good provided both sides want to change to system - and for the better of both sides. Sorry for sounding a pessimist (I prefer realist) but those who are gaining from the existing system (increasingly tilted in their favour) don't want change. I suspect we have to make THEM obsolete, because - last time - we didn't eradicate all of them, thereby enabling the dregs to go into hibernation mode while they regrouped and recalibrated their game plan.
Lawfare has always been their weapon against me.
I fight it with music and love.
Hope they don't kill me .
But fuck them if they do I won't be living in fear .
Lawfare is what it is.
Shitty shit from the shitttsters...
ScKamala locked me up after her judge Carole Yaggy threw me off my own counsel.
Lawfare.
ScKamala had first dropped those charges, but then...
Lawfare.
Call it what it is so folks know.
Lawfare.
Thanks
I love the possibilities of this. It stops making 'legal' an expensive word game. Would this also work with, say, big Pharma when they have been fined, or others (tobacco industry, pesticide industry, emf businesses, etc) who have lied in legal processes?