Tokyo Barrister: Start the law firm bankruptcy

Chapter 67 Onoda's Ultimate Move

Onoda's intentions are obvious.

His idea is to define the so-called "maintenance responsibility" of the expressway as an administrative responsibility rather than a civil liability.If the maintenance obligation is an administrative responsibility, the other party can only go to the corresponding administrative agency, such as the Highway Bureau, to file a complaint and report against the Chuanben Expressway, and then the Highway Bureau will impose administrative penalties on the Chuanben Expressway.

Once the road maintenance obligation is determined not to be a civil liability, the other party will not be able to file a civil lawsuit.

In other words, all the opponent's attack paths will be completely blocked by him.

If the court dismissed the lawsuit, it can be expected that Miyagawa and the others will appeal again.However, the general appeal success rate will be extremely small.If the case goes to the Tokyo High Court and the High Court still judges that the "maintenance responsibility" is an administrative responsibility rather than a civil liability, then the court's judgment will form a binding precedent.

That is to say, from now on, the maintenance obligation of the expressway will become an administrative responsibility, and all drivers who have accidents due to obstacles on the road surface will not be able to file civil lawsuits against the Kawamoto Expressway.The legal risk of Kawamoto Expressway will be completely safe.

When he reported this strategy to Imanishi, the director showed a highly appreciative expression.

Thinking of this, Onoda was a little excited. The future judicial precedent might be recorded as his own, and he will become a legal expert on highway disputes!

As for whether the case was converted into an administrative case, whether the other party would do something with the Highway Bureau, Onoda was not worried at all.After all, with the power of Kawaben Expressway, it is very difficult for the other party to do anything if they have to negotiate with the Highway Bureau.Even if he was caught, the final administrative penalty would be nothing more than three drinks.

After finishing his defense, Onoda looked at Kitahara confidently.He was ready to appreciate Bei Yuan's panicked expression.At the beginning, how arrogantly Beiyuan showed off his relationship with Miyagawa in front of him, today he will repay it all even more.

At this time, in the auditorium, the legal team of Kawamoto Expressway also smiled when they heard Onoda's defense.In the case of the surprise tactics of the statement of defense, it is impossible for the other party to respond to this kind of "civil case acceptance scope" defense.And the opposite is a young lawyer who just graduated from university, which is even more impossible.

On the other side, the young male lawyer in the plaintiff's seat still looked calm and breezy.When Beiyuan heard Onoda's words, his expression did not change in any way, and he still sat in a lazy posture, crossing his legs in a place where the judge could not see.

What a boring argument~.Bei Yuan was about to yawn, but after thinking about it, he was still in court, so he stopped the urge immediately.

Onoda caught sight of Beiyuan's expression, and was stunned for a moment.Why is Bei Yuan so calm?what happened? !Didn't he know that he had filed a "civil scope of action" defense? !Don't you know that if he can't make an effective rebuttal, the court will immediately dismiss their lawsuit, and the case will be over, and it will be over completely! !
Doesn't he understand? !

Sitting on the dock, Imanishi held his head up slightly, watching the scene indifferently, and was surprised to find that Bei Yuan still showed no signs of disturbance.However, Imanishi quickly calmed down.

Judging from the contact with Beiyuan before Jinxi, he concluded that Beiyuan was the kind of person who put on airs.By putting on a great appearance to frighten the opponent, in fact, the inside is empty and vulnerable.As long as you don't get intimidated by Bei Yuan's appearance, there is nothing scary about this person.

At such a young age, Bei Yuan looked like a mature young man.

This is a typical example of cleverness being mistaken by cleverness.

Imam stroked his palm, preparing to wait for the court's verdict.

Miyagawa on the plaintiff's table was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and her complexion was already a little red from nervousness. She took a pen and quickly wrote down the main points of Onoda's words on the notebook, and began to rack her brains to think about how to refute it. .

Miyagawa stared at the main points of Onoda's defense recorded on the paper, and after thinking about it for a while, she found that her head was——

【Blank】

The time was too short, and there was no time to react. Miyakawa's hand holding the pen began to tremble slightly. She turned around with a stiff neck, looked at Beiyuan beside her, and saw that the paper in front of him was actually a piece of snow-white Well, Kitahara didn't write down any of the main points that Onoda just said, as if it was an unimportant matter at all.

Miyakawa glanced up again, Beiyuan's expression was still the same as usual, with a calm and somewhat cynical expression, and there was no panic on his face that the case would be dismissed immediately by the court.

"What...what should we do, Kitahara? I...how do we respond?" Miyagawa said with a trembling voice, "If the response is not good, the case will be dismissed immediately. All the work we have done will be in vain gone."

"Don't be afraid, I'm here," Bei Yuan said softly.

Just five words, like a mantra.

Some kind of mysterious ritual has been started, which can restore things to normal.

The girl next to her, the inner turmoil was still stirring, but in an instant the turmoil calmed down and returned to a small calm lake, as if the ripples just now had never appeared before.

Hearing Kitahara's slightly magnetic and deep voice, Miyagawa's heartbeat was still a little flustered, and suddenly he calmed down.For some reason, she suddenly felt that as long as Bei Yuan was around, everything would be better.

Judge Kumagai sat on the bench, watching the scene in front of him with great interest.On the plaintiff's table were two young lawyers who probably had just graduated from college.It turned out that what they met was the senior lawyer team of the listed company.From the very beginning, this has been a war of disparity in strength.The other party's defense of the scope of civil case acceptance, it is estimated that this group of young people who have just graduated from the university law school cannot deal with it on the spot.

However, the calm appearance of the male lawyer in the plaintiff's seat is interesting.

During Judge Kumagai's trial career, he has seen too many lawyers who can't cope with the surprise attack of the other party's defense and look flustered.For the sake of young people today, let them go.

"Do you need to prepare?" Judge Kumagai asked with a smile, looking at the lawyer in the plaintiff's seat.

Hearing Judge Kumagai's question, Imanishi frowned slightly, his eyes fixed on every move in the arena, carefully trying to figure out what Kumagai said inside and outside the meaning.Although this question is simple and common, it may represent a bad signal.Perhaps Onoda's aggressive posture just now caused the judge to feel a certain amount of sympathy for Kitahara.

Hearing this question from the chief referee, Miyakawa immediately felt relieved, and was about to answer "need", but was held back by Kitahara beside him.

Bei Yuan leaned back in his chair and said with a smile, "No need. Chief referee, I can answer right now."

Hearing these words, Onoda suddenly couldn't control his expression, opened his mouth slightly, his eyes were as huge as copper bells, and he couldn't understand the motive of the person in front of him.He...he heard right just now, right?The referee is willing to take the initiative to give some time for them to think about how to defend.

And this Beiyuan actually gave up on his own initiative.

This... this is a fool.

Bei Yuan adjusted the tie on his body, stood up unsteadily, with a cautious smile on his face.It was as if a demon spread its wings on its back and descended slowly on the trial court, raised its sharp claws, and was about to open its bloody mouth to swallow the opposite lawyer in one gulp.

(End of this chapter)