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Market => Product offers => Topic started by: IllegalAid on April 07, 2012, 09:11 pm
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Disclaimer: While I am fairly proficient in English, it is not my native tongue.
I am a European lawyer in general practice, and also a big fan of SR and the services provided through the site. As my way of giving back to the community, I would like to offer legal advice to anyone who might need it. My idea is for the service to be free; there will be no hourly, per-question or other kind of fee. I might decide to accept (anonymous) donations, but I will never demand it. The questions would be asked either through private messages or, in case it is a general question that might be of interest to others, here in the forum.
Naturally, I am not competent to give detailed advice regarding every legal order within the EU. (I do however know my way around the areas of law that are harmonized throughout the union.) At the same time, I am reluctant to reveal my nationality. To me, this seems to be the biggest problem that needs to be solved in order for this to work.
What do you think? Is there a solution, or should I pursue this idea on a national level instead of here at SR?
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I don't even think there's been that many situations where a lawyer has been needed.
That's generous of you.
I'm not in EU, but thanks for offering your support.
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I'm sure you will be a useful addition to the SR community. Lawyers and accountants are always handy, when they are on your side lol.
The more specialists we have in the mix, the better.
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I don't even think there's been that many situations where a lawyer has been needed.
Perhaps not for the community as a whole, but I can imagine lots of situations where buyers and sellers would value reliable insights about the applicable regulations. "Does this constitute (the equivalent of) 'probable cause' in jurisdiction X?", "What punishment can I expect for possession of Y amount of drug Z?", "The police claim that if I do not admit to A, they will do B, are they just trying to intimidate me?", etc.
Then there is the question of trust. I think (or at least hope) that nobody here would be foolish enough to give away enough information about their case to tie their questions to their real life identity. The lawyer-client privilege is built on the assumption that the lawyer has more to lose (legal sanctions, loss of business) by breaking the clients trust than by not doing so. I would, of course, not lose anything by reporting all of my SR "clients" to law enforcement. While I can assure you guys I would not do that, I can not see any acceptable way of enforcing this assurance. This inherent lack of trust makes giving proper advice more difficult.
So there are basically two problems here, both attributable to my anonymity: 1) People with questions do not know if I actually know how to help them. 2) People do not have any reason to trust me. Obviously this severely limits my usefulness, but I hope I can still be of some help.
With all of this being said, if there are people who think my services can help them I will gladly give it my best. Other than this forum, I have set up a TOR e-mail account: illegalaid@tormail.net. I am also working on getting Instant Messaging through torchat (https://github.com/prof7bit/TorChat) to work in the virtual machine I have set up to access SR. For obvious reasons communication might need to be encrypted, so I have made myself a PGP key. Public key is at the end of this post.
Nota bene: Please keep information that could compromise your identity to a minimum. Generally I need to know what country you live in, but other than that I do not wish to know any sensitive information about you. This includes seemingly harmless information such as SR user name, forum user name (in case we communicate outside of the forum), etc.
Sorry about the long post, but writing is after all how I make my living. (must.. resist.. urge.. to.. post.. smileyface! will.. undermine.. apparent.. seriousness.. of.. endeavor)
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