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A document designed to achieve exactly the opposite effect to the one its | [[Legal opinion]]. (''n''): 1. A long and detailed [[disclaimer]] of its own liability which a [[law firm]] will charge you handsomely for preparing. | ||
2. A document designed to achieve exactly the opposite effect to the one its addressee anticipates, in that it carries as little by way of meaningful existential content as possible, while being as comprehensive, categorical and absolute as it can be about [[Disclaimer|what it is ''not'' saying]]. Which is, more or less, everything. | |||
This is typical of the sum total of the positive statement of the law you find in a legal opinion: | This is typical of the sum total of the positive statement of the law you find in a legal opinion: | ||
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Which is a [[mediocre lawyer|lawyer’]]s way of saying “[[Brexit means Brexit]]”. Should the agreement your solicitor has prepared for you make no sense whatsoever; if it is plainly impossible for an ordinary Englishman to divine the merchants’ commercial consensus no matter how carefully he examines the text — hardly an inconceivable contingency when that agreement was drawn up by a [[mediocre lawyer|lawyer]] — then your expensively wrangled opinion does no more than verify that sorry state of affairs. | Which is a [[mediocre lawyer|lawyer’]]s way of saying “[[Brexit means Brexit]]”. Should the agreement your solicitor has prepared for you make no sense whatsoever; if it is plainly impossible for an ordinary Englishman to divine the merchants’ commercial consensus no matter how carefully he examines the text — hardly an inconceivable contingency when that agreement was drawn up by a [[mediocre lawyer|lawyer]] — then your expensively wrangled opinion does no more than verify that sorry state of affairs. | ||
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*[[Disclaimer]] | |||
*[[Throat clearing]] | |||
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