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Teach a Man How to Fish
In the past few years I've done a lot of legal practice as a hobby, not work. I was assisted by people on a pro bono basis and I learned a lot from them. The aim was to attain "Legal Self-Sufficiency", i.e. to be in a position where I can cope with oversensitive sociopaths and corrupt official even a Litigant in Person (LIP). Filing at higher levels is a lot more complicated though. There were times I needed representation as my experience was insufficient. It's hard to improve without practising on one's own (learning from errors).
As I put it some days ago, nowadays I regard myself an independent investigative journalist and litigant (defensive litigant, handling SLAPPs that effective investigative journalists tend to attract). I quite like this and I learned to be comfortable with the process and underlying protocols. I can easily spot when law firms are in breach rules, engage in contempts (many lies told to many judges), and quite a few judges in the High Court know me.
My lessons began in 2015 (David) and continued in more recent years with local (Mancunian) lawyers who don't charge a penny. They correctly advised me in 2024 that Americans who take on debt and are funded by third parties are engaged in self-harm. And as noted the other night in relation to the Garrett trial (ended 31 October 2025, i.e. 365 days ago), based on his own public statements and his spouse's public statements, he had already run out of money way before any judgement and it would be foolish to ignore such data points. He was borrowing already a year before an expensive trial, so it was clear that he - just like or along with his litigation partner from Microsoft - would pay nothing upon losing their cases. They were moreover based in another continent - very far away from London - so compelling them to pay anything would be a logistical nightmare, according to legal experts in the UK. They knew this. Politicians now understand this too and we need an elaborate reform to curtail such cross-Atlantic lawsuits - not only Russia is the culprit here.
When I was younger I learned to do the plumbing at home (as I did earlier today). It's a skill that can save one not only money but also time and stress. The same goes for many other "life skills". In the above case, the learning was out of necessity. Mastering such skills makes us stronger; we're robust to bullying. █
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