That is, man cannot live by cotton candy alone, she needs a proper diet.
Reference is not being made here to analyses and commentary on Guri v Hadejia Native Authority or PDP v INEC that too many legal blogs engage in.
Those analyses seem to be written to be read by legal practitioners or because the authors believe that is what lawyers should go on about.
That analyses is very important but we stress and refer to a mind that has had the benefit of legal training talking about issues of consequence to the general population in a manner that is accessible to the general public and which gives instruction for action.
It is like putting forth Michael Jordan to talk about the process of building a sports team; others, talk show hosts, radio jockeys et al will say something but he will tell it to you from his ideals, beliefs and failings. His obviously superior insight can then be applied to other fields of endeavor outside of just basketball.
A lawyer setting up a maritime blog and approaching it from problems that exist, how they can be clearly understood and using the actual legal position as a very light reference is preferable to the Domesday book we came across the other day. It went on for pages, it was like a Supreme Court Judgment where all the Justices gave their full opinions, with dissenting judgement in full without adopting anything previously said by my learned brother! Going Domesday once in a while is okay, there needs to be depth legal, analyses. But all the time?
It is less about seeing the law as the answer to everything the same way a man who has a hammer sees everything as a nail but more about making that vast legal intelligence open to the rest of society through the way you apply it to matters of consequence to the general population.
Especially if it is politics, entertainment and sports.
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