Tacitus in love, Plato in trap

"That's why...that old bastard sees that his time is not long, so he wants to get part of the money from me to give to his ex-wife's son under his own name, I'm sorry!" The old lady spit Part of it stuck to the corner of her own mouth, so she wiped it with her trembling index finger, and then pressed the ink pad with the same finger, "Listen up, judge, I will never leave this marriage!"

"Yes, yes, you don't want a divorce." Yi Zhongming glanced at his watch impatiently, "We have clearly recorded these in the record, don't worry!"

"What? That old bastard gave you money?" The old lady's eyes lit up immediately, "How much did he give you? I'll double it!!!"

"What I said just now is that your situation has been clearly recorded in the transcript!!!" Yi Zhongming leaned down, raised the volume, and shouted directly into the old lady's ear, "I can't say a word. Didn't talk about the plaintiff, how did you hear that he gave us money?! Really, if you can't hear clearly, just install a hearing aid!"

"Hearing aid? Why do I want that thing? Learn to play drummer at 80 years old?!" The old lady rolled her eyes at Yi Zhongming, and stamped her handprint on the last page, "Besides, I can hear the voice I want to hear, and I don't want to hear it." I'm too lazy to listen!"

"Haha," Fang Quan on the side tried his best to smile, "What you said, old man, is really philosophical..."

"Of course, I have lived for 80 years!" Standing up tremblingly, the old lady turned her head to look at Yi Zhongming, "From now on, I will just go to court at the time written on the ticket, right? "

"Yes, the other thing is called a subpoena..." Yi Zhongming took off his glasses and rubbed between his brows, "Go home and wait patiently!"

Seeing the old lady walk out of the court, Fang Quan immediately turned to Yi Zhongming: "Why were you so fierce to the old man just now!"

"It's fierce! Why don't I just make my voice a little louder? Can she hear it? Don't forget, this defendant is [-] years old!"

"Tsk, make some crooked reasons..."

"You still dare to 'tsk' to me! Don't think that you can be arrogant after becoming an official stenographer." Yi Zhongming turned his head and walked up the stairs, "If I didn't try my best to keep you here, I don't know where you are now Drink the northwest wind!"

"So what? The internal cause is the fundamental reason that determines the development of things!" Fang Quan twirled the thin file on his fingertips, "The ability has been recognized, and there is no reason why I can't keep it."

"Indeed, at least I can make an inquiry record for the 80-year-old lady—fortunately, her speech is still clear..."

"...Is it that difficult to spit out a word of praise from you..." Fang Quan rolled his eyes, "But people in their 80s came to us for a divorce. The plaintiff's old man is really..."

"Are they married for the second time, so whether they are [-] or [-], the probability of divorce is very high." Yi Zhongming shrugged, "It's better to say that as long as you are married, there is bound to be a risk of divorce. "

"Is that why you don't look for a partner now?"

Hearing the voice from the end of the stairs, Yi Zhongming and Fang Quan raised their heads.

"What, it's the judge..." Yi Zhongming turned his face and rubbed his hair, "Why did you mention this again? You are much more enthusiastic about this matter than my parents."

"I won't let you go like your parents. You will be thirty soon, why don't you hurry up and find a partner!" When Yi Zhongming came up, the chief judge knocked the stack of papers in his hand. On his head, "So this new case only gives you one piece of divorce."

"There's a new case, wait!" Taking the stack of documents from the chief judge, Yi Zhongming frowned and looked through them, "Give me five?! President, please forgive me!" , you don’t know that I have to represent our Second Ice District Court to participate in the intermediate court competition? I have to go to this court to participate in training later! Giving me five cases right now is too…”

"Don't complain, I've taken four of them myself! There are still a lot of case filing materials left at your sister Ping's place!" The chief judge sighed helplessly, "And the cases for you are not I am merciful enough for any complicated money disputes involved. Besides," the president turned to Fang Quan, with a meaningful smile on his mouth, "It is also a good training opportunity for Fang Quan, isn't it? ?”

"Huh? Me?!"

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"Copy of indictment, notice of response, notice of proof, address confirmation, power of attorney, supervision and evaluation card, receipt of delivery, and most importantly, subpoena—oh, everything is written, then Next..." Swallowing with difficulty, Fang Quan's hand slowly reached out to the phone.

【"Take the initiative to mediate?" Fang Quan frowned slightly, "But isn't mediation such a matter based on the parties' own wishes?"

"So those of you who come from majors..." The chief judge shook his head again and again, "Yi Zhongming always said the same thing, so few of his cases were transferred."

"Wouldn't it be good if the parties disagreed with the judgment directly?" Fang Quan asked suspiciously.

The chief judge opened his mouth, then took a deep breath and swallowed back what he wanted to say just now, and spoke again after a while: "In short, as his clerk, if he doesn't want to transfer, you should transfer it! Before the case is judged, we must spare no effort to deal with the parties until they compromise! In the matter of mediation, you and Yi Zhongming and even the entire first-class court are a community of destiny! Do you understand?"

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"Spare no effort to mediate..." Putting his hand on the receiver, Fang Quan's mouth couldn't help twitching, "I feel like I can drain my energy just by listening to the parties talking on the phone..."

But since the target is the judge, then these things are naturally unavoidable...

"Isn't it just to ask them for mediation opinions when they are called to get the subpoena? It's not much different from what they did before! Probably!" Fang Quan let out a long breath, picked up the receiver, "then first Let's start with the hardest bones..."

The first one is a maintenance dispute case: the plaintiff, an old couple from the Ye family, sued their four sons and asked them to take turns to support themselves for a month, and had nothing else to ask for.

"Anyway, the plaintiff doesn't want alimony, so it's just a matter of making a few more phone calls! Maybe it can be transferred."

After a short wait, the eldest son of the Ye family answered the phone.

"Hi, hello Mr. Ye Dong, this is the first-class court of Erbing District Court. Your parents sued you to us because of a maintenance dispute. Please come to us to get a subpoena if it is convenient for you soon!"

"You really sued us..." Although Ye's father and son said this, his tone was a little flat, "Can I come and get it tomorrow afternoon?"

"Okay." After making a record on the preparation form, Fang Quan hurriedly chased after him, "Well... do you have any mediation opinions on this case?"

"A mediation opinion? Can I tell you after I discuss it with my younger brothers?"

"That's fine...then goodbye." Fang Quan ticked off the paper with satisfaction.In theory, it was the second child of the Ye family, but he didn't answer the phone, so Fang Quan dialed the number for the third child of the Ye family without stopping.

"What?! I'm also the defendant?!" The third child of the Ye family, Ye Nan became more emotional, "Now the two old people are obviously supported by me, why am I also the defendant?"

"Because doing so according to the civil procedure/procedural law can meet the requirements of the procedure." Fang Quan turned his pen with his left hand, "So do you have any mediation advice?"

"The mediation opinion... I haven't thought about it yet. However, I think it is necessary to reflect some situations to your people in the court. It may be helpful to the trial of the case-I can think of something while I am talking. What mediation opinion!"

"Okay, you go ahead." Changing the receiver to his left hand, Fang Quan held the pen steadily with his right hand.

"That has to start when we were young..."

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"Hello, Xiao Fang!" After an unknown amount of time, the judge opened the door and walked into the office, "Why is the phone line busy all the time?"

"Sorry, my client is reporting the situation..." Covering the receiver, Fang Quan hastily apologized to the judge.

"This situation has been reported for half an hour! Don't you know that the whole court shares this number?!" The chief judge raised his eyes, "If there are really so many cases to report, let him come to the court to report face to face !"

"Yes, sorry!!!"

After explaining the situation to the third child of the Ye family, Fang Quan hung up the phone.Indeed, I have been chatting with this client for too long, and there are other parties at hand, and I have no contact with other cases, let alone mediation.Putting aside the few pages that recorded the situation of the third child in the Ye family, Fang Quan seized the time to continue calling the last defendant in the Ye family.

"Oh, someone from the court? My elder brother just contacted me, and tomorrow I will come with my elder brother to get the subpoena."

The youngest, Ye Bei, sounds like a good communicator.

"Then about the mediation opinion..."

"Oh, I also said about this big brother just now. He said that if people from your court come to us, just say that we brothers will discuss it ourselves. When the time comes, we will tell you after the discussion. Don't bother us one by one. We are."

"That's it, let's discuss it carefully!" Fang Quan hung up the phone happily, "Then I will contact the elder/second of this family later, and they will discuss the mediation situation by themselves—??? Wait, this Didn't you still exclude me?!"

But this kind of result is the most in line with the spirit of mediation, so it's fine as it is... ok.

Forcibly comforting himself, Fang Quan picked up the second case file.This time it was a dispute over the validity of the contract, where the plaintiff asked the defendant to perform/house delivery obligations, and the defendant, Ms. Ma, was very emotional——

"If you want me to transfer the account, I will transfer it! Why do you have to go to the court! Could it be that he wants to put me in a position of dishonesty?! Going to the court to file a lawsuit, what a shame!"

"So you are willing to mediate?"

"Yes! Why don't you want to! Let the plaintiff come and follow me to go through the formalities!" Ms. Ma yelled on the other end of the phone, "It's just that he sued me to the court because of the delay of two months because of my husband's funeral. , this person's heart is too cruel!"

"Your husband's funeral?" Hearing the unexpected information, Fang Quan sat up straight, "The disputed house should have been jointly owned by your husband and you before his death?"

"Of course, our names are written on the real estate certificate." Ms. Ma's voice choked up, "Just after selling the house to the plaintiff, my husband suddenly had a heart attack. Woooo..."

"Heart attack? Then the will..."

"Are you trying to make me happy? Of course there is no such thing as a will! Poor his 80-year-old mother and my daughter who just finished the college entrance examination...you think I have no time to deal with this dilapidated house! "

So, no wonder the plaintiff came to court.

"No, this case cannot be transferred casually. The defendant has the problem of adding another party..." Hanging up the phone, Fang Quan scratched his scalp with a pen, "Finally there is someone who sincerely wants to mediate... Ah, it's less than an hour before I get off work!! Hurry up, hurry up..."

Next is the only divorce case in this batch of new cases mentioned by Judge Gong. The defendant, Ms. Zhu Yingtai, is a female Ph.D. student from Sanshui University of Technology.

"What subpoena? I don't have time to get it. You can send it to the address in my dormitory!"

"Then... the mediation means—"

"My mentor is here, goodbye."

——It will be more difficult to communicate than ordinary people...

"...Let's hurry up and move on to the next one."

The penultimate case was an unjust enrichment dispute.The case is also uncomplicated: the plaintiff and the defendant broke off the engagement after they got engaged, and the plaintiff now demands the defendant’s wife to return the key money. This kind of thing happened in my hometown, and it’s nothing like this kind of situation in the old city of Sanshui. .

"If mediation was useful, they wouldn't have taken me to court, would they?" Tang Wan, the defendant, sobbed on the phone.

"Maybe the plaintiff, Lu Youhe, just because of the face of our court..." After three failed attempts, Fang Quan did not intend to give up easily for the fourth time.

"Impossible, it's impossible at this point..." Tang Wan cried even more sadly on the other end of the phone, "I will get the subpoena, and I will go to the court hearing, but mediation, sorry..."

"...It's not good to force others to mediate in this situation." With a long sigh, Fang Quan put the case file aside.After working hard all afternoon, not a single case was transferred.I really don’t know how the chief judge and Judge Zheng’s 50% mediation and dismissal rate came about.

"It's almost time to get off work, so let's contact the defendant in the last case." The last case is a dispute over liability for raising animals. The plaintiff, who was afraid of dogs, rolled down the stairs and fell down after being chased by the defendant's dog. The defendant only paid compensation for medical expenses. Now the plaintiff is also claiming the lost wages due to the injury.

"Lost wages..." The defendant Hu Zi was silent for a while, "May I ask what unit the plaintiff works for?"

"Wait a minute," Fang Quan put the phone to his ear, and looked at the evidence attached to the case file, "The plaintiff, Mr. Huo Shen, is the chef of the 'Tiger Kitchen' restaurant——"

"'Tiger Kitchen'? Is it the 'Tiger Kitchen'?" The defendant on the other end of the phone finally had obvious emotional fluctuations, "Is it the vanilla milkshake that went to the 'Tiger Kitchen' recommended by the same city gourmet public account?"

"Is this... I don't know..."

"Is the lost wages as much as you said just now? Please tell the plaintiff, Mr. Huo, that I am willing to mediate and pay the full amount of lost wages."

"Eh? Good!!!"

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"But I didn't expect...a big man like the plaintiff would be so frightened by the defendant's cute little dog that he would roll down the stairs... Are you so afraid of dogs?"

"You can't judge by appearance—for example, the defendant's name is Hu Zi, but he looks white and clean. Not to mention the beard, he probably doesn't have much hair on his legs, right?"

"...What's going on in your head?"

"I'm thinking—not bad, you boy!" Seeing the two parties walk out of the courtroom with a mediation paper talking and laughing, Yi Zhongming slapped Fang Quan's back hard, "The first mediation It's a victory!"

"Don't touch me gay!" Fang Quan stepped aside, "And the five cases this time seemed to be easy to mediate, but in the end only one was transferred, and I didn't deal with that one. Pure luck..."

"What's the hurry? Mediation can be carried out at any stage of the trial. If you want to, then there will be enough for you to deal with. If you really can't make it in the end, I will sentence you again."

"...Do you mean that you don't want to help me at all?" Obviously, the unjust enrichment case was settled in only 5 minutes.

"Is this a problem..."

"Ah, Judge Yi! What a coincidence! I just came to see you!" A woman stopped them when they walked through the hall and were about to step up the stairs.

"Lawyer Wang Wang Shiqi?!" Although he had no grudges against this lawyer, Fang Quan couldn't help trembling when he recalled that nightmarish Sage Cup case and that nightmarish day.

"Oh, Lawyer Wang, what's the matter?" Yi Zhongming adjusted his glasses, turned around and walked over, "The judicial appraisal of the cup in your case has just been entrusted, and the result is still not enough."

"Judge Yi, you misunderstood. I'm not here to inquire about the situation, I'm here to withdraw the lawsuit." Attorney Wang pulled out a piece of paper from his bag, "This is the application for withdrawal, and all the plaintiffs have signed it."

"Withdraw the lawsuit?" Fang Quan blinked his eyes in surprise, "Could it be that the defendant has returned the cup to you?"

"It's not that kind of thing, I finally mustered up the courage to tell them the truth..." Lawyer Wang lowered his eyelids, "That sage cup, that treasure of the Dong family, was broken ten years ago, and it was broken by me. Broken..."

"Eh?????!!!!" Fang Quan looked sideways at Yi Zhongming, who also had a rare expression of surprise on his face, "Then this case has been-- "

"It's just a farce, that's right..." Attorney Wang smiled wryly, "Although the plaintiff agreed to withdraw the lawsuit, I still have to continue to discuss with them how to compensate, and I might have to deal with you in a few days Woolen cloth!"

"Well, let's talk about it when the time comes," Yi Zhongming nodded, "There is nothing wrong with this withdrawal application, so I accept it, and I will notify you and the defendant in a few days to get the withdrawal ruling. "

"This case is really a scam..." Fang Quan couldn't help muttering seeing Lawyer Wang walking away, "I'll just say it's a waste of judicial resources!"

"Indeed." Yi Zhongming readily agreed, "However, one transfer was made and the other was withdrawn within a day, and the results are still impressive!"

"What, I'm quite happy..." Fang Quan curled his lips, "I thought you didn't agree with the mediation and withdrawal system at all..."

"I'm stupid, I don't agree! Why should I disapprove if there are practical benefits!" Yi Zhongming raised his eyebrows, "A judge would like to have more mediations and withdrawals in his case, okay?!"

"But you are not even willing to mediate for your own clerk..."

"Things like slime, the more people they get along with, the less they will form." Yi Zhongming put his hands in his pockets and walked up the steps, "And if I have time to mess around, I might as well write two more judgments!"

"Obviously expecting others to mediate and withdraw the lawsuit, but still calling their disputes 'lime mud' and unwilling to settle, you are as hopeless as ever! Don't talk about the complicated ones, but the simple facts of the case Just put it there, how much more time can I spend to understand and communicate a little more?"

"The truth..." Yi Zhongming stopped and turned around. While shaking the application for withdrawal in his hand, he looked down at Fang Quan who was several steps down the stairs. "What do you think about what Lawyer Wang said just now?"

"??? This..." Fang Quan frowned, "When I got that case, I felt that something was wrong. After hearing what Lawyer Wang said about it, I can more or less figure it out. Even so, this The truth is somewhat too shocking, and I still haven't recovered from it..."

"The truth does always give people some unexpected surprises." Yi Zhongming lowered his head, "But even if the explanation makes sense, what was just now may not necessarily be the 'truth'."

"What nonsense are you talking about! It's the 'truth' just because it can be explained!"

"Then according to the evidence submitted by the plaintiff, the cup can be explained by the defendant in the past ten years~~"

"This!!!"

Cold sweat dripped from Fang Quan's back and forehead, and he couldn't say a word for a long time.

"So this is the civil court." Yi Zhongming walked down the steps, raised his hand and flicked Fang Quan's forehead, "The 'truth' of the 'truth' in civil cases does not care about the 'truth' itself, but lies in the will of the parties involved."

"Cut, if you don't want to adjust it, then don't adjust it!" Fang Quan rubbed his eyebrows, "Why are you talking about a lot?!"

"Of course it's for you, my precious clerk." Patting Fang Quan's head, Yi Zhongming quickly withdrew his hand and continued to climb the steps, "Of course the work of mediation must be done, but don't be so enthusiastic, don't talk to the parties involved. There are too many intersections, don't always think about getting to the bottom of it, or you will regret it."

"Huh? I don't understand..."

Fang Quan shook his head, and took out a small notebook with the words "Yi Zhongming's misdeeds book" written on it from his pocket.

"not understand……"

He wrote the words "Delusion to get something for nothing" on the notebook, and he closed the notebook again.

"Do not understand……"

The author has something to say:

In the second case in the new cases in this chapter [the case of performance/house delivery obligation], is the cause of action a dispute over confirmation of the validity of the contract?Seek more professional corrections!