"Dêem-me os juízes ingleses", pede o CAA, na posta anterior, servindo tal "ditado" de mote para um interessante e importante debate.
O Portugal dos Pequeninos também fala de juristas; dir-se-ía que de "juristas (e de médicos, e de padres, etc., etc.) e de loucos, todos temos um pouco".
Aqui fica uma certa visão british da "fauna" em questão:
Academic Lawyers:
This species dresses colourfully and lives on inadequate salaries in old and crumbling buildings. These dwellings are called law faculties. The male can often be identified by his beard. Groups of academic lawyers often gather at watering holes called seminars. They usually migrate in the summer months.
A characteristic of the breed is a suspicion of lawyers in private practice. This suspicion is fuelled by the outdated belief that such lawyers are rich and drive expensive motor cars.
Due to the process of evolution academic lawyers are developing changed feeding habits....
Crown Prosecutors:
Never repeat out loud that Police Inspectors used to do the job of Crown Prosecution Service lawyers splendidly in olden times.
Instead commiserates about how sad it must be not to be a proper lawyer with the potential to be filthy rich, jetting about the place representing mega private clients or name-dropped multi-nationals, but be careful about doing so at ten o'clock of a wet Tuesday morning within earshot of a bgas-under-the-eyes real life been-at-the-police-station-on-legal-aid-rates-all-night defence solicitor from provincial private pratice!....
Magistrates (Other Legal Dramatis Personae):
The majority of magistrates are public spirited, competent and well meaning, an no more given to bizarre judgements than a Circuit judge. One or two treat their appointment as divine intervention, cease the consumption of alcohol, and eliminate those endearing human attributes that made them suitable for appointment in the first place. Others are self seeking and prone to have their wrist slapped for such earth shattering acts of self-aggrandisement as signing themselves "Justice of the Peace"...
(excertos de Bluff your way in Law, D. Mitchell, Oval Books, 2000)
