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Please welcome Human Law to Law.com's blog network

Please help me welcome to Law.com's blog network Justin Patten of the Human Law blog. Justin brings a unique angle to the mix of legal bloggers -- from across the pond, in the United Kingdom.

As his bio points out, Justin is a solicitor and the principal of a UK law firm. His experience is in employment and intellectual property law. The Human Law blog, he points out, features podcasts and video.  When he's not busy on his blog or legal matters, he might be found running marathons (if you can catch him).

I'm looking forward to catching up with his posts regularly. With items like his piece on eBay's use of SquareTrade, "eBay - A model of dispute resolution for our jaded legal system," what's not to like? He points out how quick, easy and solution-oriented the online dispute-resolution system of SquareTrade works compared with other methods.

He enumerates the argument for SquareTrade:

"My views on this:

1 The eBay process is heavily geared towards mediation or resolving disputes directly. If you look at the English legal system there is no compulsory requirement geared towards the mediation process despite all the emphasis coming from the Courts about how important mediation is.

2 It is user-friendly. Individuals are encouraged to resolve disputes themselves without recourse to lawyers. My experience of the English legal system is that even matters which are low cost and uncomplicated, it is often difficult for a lay person to navigate the Court system. The process is often(unnecessarily) shrouded in legal lease.

3 It is inexpensive. It is free to file a claim and $20 dollars to use a mediator! Please compare to the Court fees we have to pay to start a claim. If you need to instruct a lawyer which frankly most people still need, the cost can be  £150 plus Vat an hour or even more ..."

More here.

Posted by John Bringardner on March 14, 2006 at 03:08 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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