Missed the first half thanks to CSI:Miami. But I guess I didn't miss much.
I started with Hung in a trial for murdering a guy who molested his wife, Nancy. He punched that guy twice (once in the face, the other at the waist, near that organ whose name I just can't remember right this crucial moment) and that guy basically dropped dead and died. Yes, died. So he was charged with murder (that is with intent) and even if not murder, at least manslaughter (with intent of causing hurt as the charge read, but not to murder). The judge was fierce, the prosecutor was Marco (now I am confused! Stanton law firm is a private law firm and yet they're prosecuting! Anyone knows something I may have missed?) and the defence is the whole HK Law Firm AND miss monotone herself, Sister Na whom I guess is still in love with Hung. Anyway Hung thought he might go to jail, he suffered heavy losses in the stock market, he can't even pay the insurance premium for his law firm and basically he was more broke than before, so he asked Sister Na to pretend to rekindle love with him and basically made his rather stupid wife to believe he was with Sister Na again. So the wife believed and asked for a divorce, in a friendly sort of way. Why Hung is doing this? Because he loved her too much to let her suffer with him and she's still young, can find a better husband.
To cut the long story short, Ben and Ling found a witness who can testify that that victim fell onto a fire hydrant (hitting that organ that I still can't remember the name) after disturbing a rather fierce dog and basically when Hung punched him, that victim died not because of his punch but from the slow internal bleeding thanks to his itchy hand and ugly face which the dog obviously hated. Hung won the case, got off free but didn't care to find his wife again because he knew he couldn't give her happiness. Sister Na consoled him, in her usual loud temperamental way but she meant well.
That was when this series ended.
Next episode Vincent will confess he slept with that woman, that whatever her name is. And Ling will go mental in court because of this.
Interesting.
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Now the performances. Didn't see much to comment but I see enough of Ruby Wong to say she is absolutely horrible. She was practically screaming, SCREAMING when she was closing her case and yet she was so monotone. If I were the jury I would be very annoyed with her. And such a bad actress. But the worst was her screaming her every line. Ooi! People can hear ok, stop screaming!
And now I really do not understand. The end scene was Sister Na strutting into the conference room of the law firm when Hung was talking to his subordinates and then she pointed to Ben and Vincent and asked, "You two. Are you interested in going bar?"
Anyone from HK please explain to me what that means? Does it mean you must have higher standing to appear before higher court (thus wearing that wig-but is HK still wearing that wig?) or what? Because Ben and Vincent has always been doing trial work so they're advocates. So what is going bar?
I am so confused.
EPISODE 15
Written by
Funn Lim
5.10.04
Labels: Episode 15
3 comments:
Name: Kidd
While I was watching the series, I was also wondering what going bar mean. If you remember, in episode 1, it was said that Vincent change from bar to become solic. I tried looking up some laywer term. Here's my result.
solicitor
n. an English attorney who may perform all legal services except appear in court. Under the British system, the litigator or trial attorney takes special training in trial work and is called a "barrister." Occasionally a solicitor becomes a barrister, which is called "taking the silk." In the United States and Canada attorneys are referred to interchangeably as solicitors or barristers.
barrister
n. in the United States a fancy name for a lawyer or attorney. In Great Britain, there is a two-tier bar made up of solicitors, who perform all legal tasks except appearance in court, and barristers, who try cases. Some solicitors will "take the silk" (quaint expression) and become barristers.
Source: http://dictionary.law.com/
For further understanding read these articles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrister
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solicitor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawyer
In short, solicitor is the one who deal with the clients and other legal stuff while the barrister is the one who argue in court. But now, solicitor can also practice in lower court.
So, my guess is Vincent and Ben already have been called to bar and have license to practice law in higher court. But they choose to work in lower courts.
went and checked back on the previous ep by the way! (told you i have a bad memory)
What really happened lol...
Uncle Mao offered the jade back to Ben's father, he didn't want to accept it first, but Uncle Mao said if he didn't accept it that means he won't forgive him. So Ben's father DID take the jade back, but said he'll just look after it for the person who died. Ben's father even offered the $500 back to Uncle Mao, so Uncle Mao said he'll use the money to pay for dinner.
As for the barrister v solicitor thing... what Kidd said would be right... plus, they also mentioned in the series that only barristers can appear in the high court (it might be called Supreme Court there @@) so they only take the high profile cases (eg rape, murder) and they supposedly don't deal with the clients directly, their clients get referred to by a solicitor. They're also supposed to be independent because of that, because they're paid by the solicitors not the client (?? don't quote me on that one though)
oooh and about Marco, after his dangerous driving case Sister Na quit Stanton because she said she can't be partners with him anymore... he's not reliable etc etc. So Marco quits not long after too, and became a public prosecutor.
Kat, Kidd, I wrote more on this in Episode 16. Maybe in HK it is different. Because the division between the two branches are very clear, unless like Kidd said solicitor can now appear in lower courts. But High Court isn't technically lower court, since you see them wearing the robe. When they go bar I see them wearing wigs. I am still confused. In Malaysia there is no such distinction.
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