What's wrong with this lawyer?!-Chapter 891 - 287 Is Tang Fangjing Too Difficult to Get Along With?

Snow blanketed the streets, as Old Tang, clad in a black trench coat, walked leisurely through noisy streets.

He didn’t take a cab… not because he was trying to be cool, but because it was practically impossible to hail one at the moment. On the rare chance of getting one, they would start charging two hundred Yuan right off the bat.

Given the heavy snowfall, the risk for taxis was considerable. Old Tang didn’t particularly want to judge this practice, so he opted to walk instead, given that his residence was quite close to the Intermediate Court.

However, this kind of snowy weather was perfect for hotpot, though having hotpot alone seemed a bit strange.

Next, it was just a matter of waiting, hoping that the Tianyan City Intermediate Court would stand their ground and maintain their initial stance—that the actions in question were merely unstandardized law enforcement.

There once was a Deputy Chief Justice in Jingzhou who was fond of learning foreign languages, and he held a view that the right to interpret law rested with him.

Director Chen, in reality, spoke the truth—a very candid kind of truth.

This could be seen in this case.

Whether the initial law enforcement actions were unstandardized clearly they were, which logically validated the court’s verdict.

However, being unstandardized and being illegal are two different concepts.

What made Old Tang feel helpless wasn’t only the verdict itself but also the legal aid lawyer that Liu Qiaoqiao had acquired during the first and second trials.

The opposing lawyer merely went through the motions; it would be fitting to call him the second prosecutor.

If the prosecutor claimed the law enforcement was unstandardized, he would simply parrot the same thing, without defending against the real issue of whether the law enforcement was illegal.

Well, just continue waiting then, as handling cases requires nothing more than time.

The Tianyan City Intermediate Court felt conflicted as, although the case itself wasn’t complicated, the law does not exist in isolation.

Yuan Zaijun thought that, despite various issues with these law enforcement actions, Qi Baoyan, an urban management officer involved, was in uniform at that time.

More crucially, a few days before the incident occurred, the street office had already warned Liu Qiaoqiao about her sidewalk vending.

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The street office had issued a formal notice for her intentional defiance of the law, recommending strict punishment by relevant departments!

As to the matter of law enforcement legality, that wasn’t important. What mattered was that Liu Qiaoqiao still resorted to violence against the officers.

Even if the law enforcement acted illegally, does that justify violent resistance?

You should rectify the situation through administrative reconsideration and litigation afterward, not resist on the spot.

This wasn’t only Yuan Zaijun’s opinion; many legal professionals shared this view.

If there’s a problem with the enforcement, aren’t there designated channels like administrative reconsideration and litigation for you? Blocking law enforcement violently at the scene amounts to obstruction of public services!

Such actions must be severely punished.

Otherwise, does that mean law enforcement can always be resisted?

Of course, there were many within the Intermediate Court committee who disagreed.

Law, inherently reactive, always necessitates case-specific analyses.

Using the outcome of one case to judge others is the mark of legal ignorance.

In this case, the law enforcement actions were severely illegal—not only procedurally but also lacking any legal basis to impound goods.

Thus, this does not constitute an obstruction of public services crime.

For future cases, the same principle of case-specific analysis applies, which is the very purpose of having laws.

Similarly, there’s another reason.

This case was remanded for retrial by the High Court, which itself indicates the High Court’s intentions. The Intermediate Court can continue to uphold its decision, as every level of court holds the power of independent judgment.

But doing so would result in a tug-of-war similar to what other places have experienced with Intermediate and High Courts.

It would mean asserting themselves no matter how many times the High Court remands the case, unless the High Court decides to take over and try the case itself.

But to vehemently challenge the High Court over such a case? Especially when there’s Tang Fangjing involved at the High Court…

After careful consideration, the trial committee finally made a decision.

Old Tang’s thinking aligns closely with that of another group of judges.

It’s sufficient to analyze cases on an individual basis without drawing broad conclusions from just one case, like questioning whether law enforcement could always be resisted from now on…

That’s clearly a misleading shift of concept.

Whether to resist or not is your choice. It’s never about whether you can resist, but whether you want to resist.

Of course, you also need to consider whether to face consequences afterwards based on whether the law enforcement was entirely lawful at the time.

Citizens should not oppose law enforcement, but similarly, officers should not act recklessly. It’s not that if someone resists a little, they should be jailed.

Old Tang found himself idly waiting again, passing his days taking on several cases in Tianyan City.

It wasn’t about snatching business, but rather, local lawyers already had a tarnished reputation in enforcing cases.

As complained by several clients, having lawyers was utterly useless; no one knew what they achieved, as the executions still couldn’t proceed in the end.

Old Tang, having nothing else to do, took over these cases.

He initially planned to delve into them seriously and send a few individuals for a stint eating ‘national meals’ (i.e., serving time), but just after getting the first person administratively detained, the rest of the cases were resolved.

Hearing that Tang Fangjing had taken on the case and had already sent one person in, the others immediately complied with the execution, even proactively transferring the money.

The plaintiffs in several cases were overwhelmed with joy, while Old Tang found it all extremely boring. How hard it is these days to handle a case seriously.