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The plot seems more like a rom-com than real life. The tribe has a legal conspiracy to encourage lawyers everywhere to scoff and say, “That’s not the way.”
However. We are.
Lawyer in London Vardags the company suddenly opened a divorce for their client, Mrs. Williams in insurance. How, exactly, did that happen you might be wondering. Well, it consists of a web portal, a floating sign below, and a sprinkle of negligence. From The Guardian:
Sir Andrew McFarlane, president of the family group, explained that the lawyer intended to apply for a divorce for another client “unwittingly opened the electronic file in ‘Williams v Williams’ and continue to ask for a final order in that matter”.
He said that the lawyers in Vardags, who represented the wife, used the internet “without the instruction or authority of their client”. He said that the online system is operating with “its usual routine” and allowed the order to release the Williams team within 21 minutes.
Now you’re probably guessing that when the error is discovered (two days later, for the record) it can be corrected. But the judge rejected that request:
But McFarlane rejected the proposal and said: “There is strong public policy in respecting the certainty and credibility that comes from a final divorce order and maintaining the established status quo. “
He added that it is necessary to correct the idea that the online divorce portal will “give a final decree of divorce that does not require anyone to just ‘click a wrong key'”.
“As with many similar systems on the web, the operator can reach the last screen where the last click of the mouse is made after traveling through a series of previous images,” he said.
There is certainly a public interest involved, but I’m not sure that separates the way the judge thinks.
Lawyer Ayesha Vardags – the leader of the company behind the mistake – criticized the judge saying it was a “bad decision.” The mistake should not be controlled Vardags said, “The state should not divorce people on a false statement. The person must have the intention to divorce, because the basis of the intention the righteousness of our law is established.”
He continued, “When a wrong is presented to the court, and everyone accepts that a wrong has been done, it is certain that it must be done again… That is, for now, our law that you can divorce because of a mistake made. on the online system. And that’s not right, that’s not sane, that’s not justice.”
Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, host of The Jabot podcastand co-hosting a Think like a Lawyer. AtL tipsters are the best, please contact them. Feel free to email him with any suggestions, questions, or comments and follow him on Twitter @Kathryn1 or Mastodon @Kathryn1@mastodon.social.