No confidence in the legal profession

Recent polls have only reinforced the abject stupidity of the motion, by identifying this as the primary argument upon which we must now base any motion for impeachment.

To that end the lawyers in the Law Association should have done better than to be pushing this head that the Chief Justice is guilty of bad manners and, as a result, the lawyers have no confidence in him.

In addition to which we now have another judicio-legal spectacle of these same lawyers complaining that members of the public should not be allowed to comment on the actions/decisions of a judge, and that as citizens of this country they are undermining the same Judiciary and creating a situation where anarchy will prevail.

The hypocrisy of it all is unbearable for it is these same lawyers that two weeks ago did the very same thing to their Chief Justice.

From where I sit having observed the antics of the legal fraternity, it would seem to me to be they who have brought the justice system into disrepute. For the vast majority of citizens, the legal system brings no justice. I say this because for some lawyers the practice of law is no longer a vocation but a business which has created a environment where anarchy does prevail. I say this because it is cheaper for a man to have a quadruple bypass than to pay the fees of an attorney in a High Court matter. Justice is only the prerogative of the rich.

As far as I am concerned, the only set of people that I have no confidence in are lawyers who have by their unethical practice of law brought the entire legal system into disrepute.

SATU-ANN I RAMCHARAN Maraval