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Old 05-04-2012, 07:41 AM   #150
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Question: Press accounts I have read say little about the possibility of the ruling being appealed, even though there are two UK appeals levels above the High Court. Will it be appealed? And how often is the High Court overruled?

Unless that judge now sits on the High Court of Justice of England and Wales, this sounds like guilt by association. Just one of my personal bugaboos.
This case won't be appealed. The ISPs barely participated in the first place because they had no particular interest in wasting tons of money on defending an issue that they don't really care about and The Pirate Bay wasn't a party to the action.




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The next thing I would normally say is along the lines of "why can't lawyers make legal things simple, MUCH shorter, and easy enough to read, well, easily". (I ignore the rational argument that they have to cover every loophole, & just want - in my case - Plain English)
It's hard to charge $250 an hour to review documents that a human could read. And actually, periodically a "plain drafting" movement will get some steam in the legal industry. Unfortunately, a lot of legal documents that are "translated" to plain language end up losing some important detail or changing the detail of something small (small that is, until it goes to court).

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