Friday, May 27, 2011

SIR WILLIAM GARROW, fastidious reader, excellent perfomer, tough barrister, hard-worker

Learning from William Garrow and take it to the people who fight for justice!
"innocent until proven guilty"
"attentive and diligent in the performance of the technical and practical duties of the office"
"you know a particular fact and wish to conceal it – I'll get it out of you!"
"if your committee would give me their whole incomes, and all their estates, I would not be seen as the advocate of practices which I abhor, and a system which I detest"
Born  in Monken Hadley at April 13th, 1760, to a priest and his wife, then in Middlesex, Garrow went to school at his father's in the village before being apprenticed to Thomas Southouse, an attorney in Cheapside, which preceded a pupillage with a Mr. Crompton, a special pleader. Garrow studied the law hard, viewing cases at the Old Bailey, and as a result Crompton recommended that he become a solicitor or barrister. Garrow joined Lincoln's Inn in November 1778, and was called to the Bar on 27 November 1783. He established soon a reputation as a criminal law barrister, specially for defence, and in February 1793 was made a King's Counsel by HM Government to prosecute cases involving treason and felonies.


Wednesday, May 18, 2011

INDONESIAN LAW COURT PREFERENCE, better be anglo saxon or stay the same?

As long as we know, Indonesian law-court has been preferred to the continental/ civil law system until now. This system adopted the colonial's that occupied Indonesia for about 350 years.

The Continental sys. has 3 (three) variables for judgment over the accused. There are The Judge, The Protector, and The Prosecutor. Meanwhile, The Anglo/ Common Law sys. has The Judge, The Protector, The Prosecutor, and The Jury. So, there are 4 (four) variables for this sys. In Latin phrase, we can describe this, "quot capita, tot scientiae", that means, "many head, more wise".