Very cool, what you guys are doing. Kudos and applause again.
Rare individuals who compromise their own comfort for the greater good. Full support for your endeavours and hope you kick some corporate ass.
Small suggestion if I may... I lost my own battle largely because I was too emotionally invested in it. The court doesn't appreciate humanity. Especially from a woman but that's another conversation entirely.
I'd removed all the expressive words on court documents and keep things very factual. Even mentioning "Orwellian" or using the word "millions" instead of just saying "Australians" reduces your argument in a court of law. It makes it personal and that can seem flaky when you're dealing with business and stupidity. And ulterior motives - money and control aren't about the people, justice or equality. See?
You gotta play their game their way or they will use it against you. And since they have little emotion when it comes to winning this fight that means cold and clinical. Or they won't be able to even "hear" you through the mire of their own entitlement, bias, prejudice and judgement.
I hope this makes some sense?
Following with interest and admiration.
The reason I shared photographs of that text was because whilst Andrew did say that in court, it wasn't in any of our submitted papers. Obviously it will appear in the transcript.
I know what you mean about emotive language and you are probably correct. Certainly the Australian court was far dryer and more technical than I would have imagined (I've sat through earlier hearings with just Andrew and the Judge but this was considerably different). However, in the context here the other side had directly attacked Andrew's competence in their written submissions. As soon as Andrew fired back in his reply submission he destroyed them on this point and they completely dropped it. That was partly why Andrew started by pointing out that they had got his name wrong! They first claimed Andrew isn't able to handle a case like this and then get his name wrong on their main affidavit! It's worth scoring a point over that.
Their whole thrust was to make out that this was a cynical money grab: one of the ways to counter that was to bring a little emotion to it because Andrew (and I) really are emotional about it.
But yes, this has to be managed carefully.
Shoooo... I can feel my rage rising just hearing about it!
Funny... one of the top lawyers in CT got the docket number wrong on a case and I was naive enough to play fair and let them know. Boy did I learn too late. 🙄
Australia probably similar to ZA. Regarding prejudice and bias then. I'd watch for that as well.
I wish you had a good lawyer. It's mostly a money game sadly. Who knows who in the upper echelons. It's a club and all the good lawyers know the judges personally. So. Not much actual law or justice there really. Honestly. It is what it is.
If you guys ran a fund to raise money for this for a good lawyer?
I've had magistrates ignore legal protocol completely and rule in favour of someone who had a good lawyer when I couldn't afford one and did my own case in Regional court. And it was illegal. What she did.
And if your judge is dodgy the system will protect them. To protect itself. Of course.
Full support here. I know what you're up against.
"Justice". Ugh :(