Mystery: The New Dark Emperor Arrives

Chapter 167 Cases Rising to Ideology
After some cross-examination, Hobert concluded: "Did you hear that? In Arnold's factory, there is no reminder about safe production at all. It would be good to write a few phrases on the wall of the workshop with paint.

"As for what the opposing lawyer said, Arnold did not participate in the management, but the legal person of this factory is Arnold, and he is unshirkably responsible for all accidents that happened in the factory!"

After the concluding speech, Hobert also invited the witnesses he had found. After swearing to the gods of their respective beliefs, the five witnesses successively proved that Arnold's factory did not have a reminder of safe production.

Hugo began to cross-examine the witnesses. He only asked one question: "Do you know how to write the phrase 'safe production'? If so, please write it."

Only one worker wrote the crooked "Safe Production", while the other four wrote phrases with wrong grammar and letters.

This is not bad, because they are workers, so know some letters and phrases.

Hugo spread his hands: "See, how many people can understand the prompts like 'safe production'? What is the practical use of such slogans?"

This summary caused Gusta and others to laugh, much like sneer or ridicule.

"I know, sir." A witness suddenly said: "Although I can't write it down, if I see it, I will know it."

Hugo was taken aback.

The other three witnesses followed suit: "I know it too!"

"I know the phrase when I see it."

Hugo immediately changed directions and asked questions, such as: "Come here to testify, have you received any property from the plaintiff's lawyer?"

The witness replied: "Accepted, but it is compensation for lost work."

The more questions were asked, the more Hugo found that the witnesses' answers were flawless. He even suspected that Hobert had given these people relevant training.

So he put away all contempt, and regarded Hobart as the most powerful enemy he had encountered so far.

This is not to say that Barrister Hugo's defense direction is wrong, or that his response is slow.

But after he started working as a lawyer, he never handled a single worker's commission. He didn't understand workers at all, or workers were just a concept to him.

In Hugo's concept, the workers are vulgar, ignorant, ignorant of the law, and unreasonable. They are completely a group of curly-haired baboons with sparse hair.

But he underestimated a person's determination to survive. Even if a person is ignorant, he will show a very alert side when it comes to survival.

In Hobert's description yesterday afternoon, the five witnesses already understood that the outcome of this lawsuit is related to their future living environment, so today they dealt with it with full energy.

For Hugo, this is just a well-paid lawsuit. Even the work of defending materials and finding witnesses is carried out by his assistants, which is a common practice.

It's just that if this lawsuit is just in accordance with the usual practice, it will be difficult to win the lawsuit.

In the first round of witnesses, the plaintiff won a small victory.

During the second round of defense, Hugo tried hard to make the direction of the defense fall within the range he was good at: "The most commendable thing about the Kingdom of Loen is freedom and democracy.

"Although these two words and meanings were invented by the Republic of Intis, they have been better developed here.

"I believe that it is Mr. Arnold's freedom to hire whom to work for him, and it is Bob's freedom to work in Mr. Arnold's factory.

"All of this was achieved freely and voluntarily, and now that Bob is injured, it is obviously an unreasonable request to attribute all the responsibility to Mr. Arnold!"

Hobert defended: "Yes, 'freedom' is a fine word, but it has to be restrained.

"The freedom mentioned by the defendant's lawyer includes the freedom to buy and sell local people as livestock in the southern continent, and also includes the freedom to exploit the local people without any bottom line in the Rorsted Islands. Often such freedom is the darkest side of human nature.

"The law is the bottom line of freedom, but the behavior shown by Arnold is freedom without a bottom line. When my client entered Mr. Arnold's factory, he had already reached an employment relationship.

"In this state, Mr. Arnold will be responsible for the work-related injuries suffered by my client."

The judge did not prevent them from making ideological arguments, because this lawsuit already has a certain social nature.

Hugo looked at the judge's expression before continuing: "As a Loen citizen, I have enough democratic rights.

"My client only needs to be responsible for fixed responsibilities, but if my client is responsible for all responsibilities in the factory, how can it reflect the democracy of the Loen Kingdom?
"Bob has his rights and responsibilities, but this does not include the right to claim excessive compensation from his employer. If the claim in this case is successful and Bob's rights and interests are protected, how should the rights and interests of my contemporaries be protected?

"As a citizen of a democratic country, my client should not ignore his rights, otherwise Backlund's economic rules will be severely hit!"

Hobert defended: "The democracy mentioned by the defendant's lawyer is only democracy in the sense of money. Ladies and gentlemen, there are so many members of the House of Commons, which member is a worker? Which member is a farmer?

"Is a democracy that cannot represent all classes a real democracy?"

At this point, Bob's co-workers booed and applauded, but Hobert noticed that the reactions of others were normal.

Seeing the smile on Barrister Hugo's face, Hobert suddenly realized that this was a topic Hugo had deliberately provoked in order to make the conflict between Bob and Arnold rise to a class conflict.

It really is a barrister!Hobert sighed in his heart, realizing the crux of the problem so quickly.

He immediately changed his strategy: "The defendant is someone who neither understands freedom nor what is true democracy. Such a person is quite rare in Backlund. He has been using personal grievances to stir up the entire Backlund. contradiction.

"Everyone, are you willing to pay for the consequences of Arnold's inaction?"

Hugo couldn't laugh immediately. He didn't expect an unknown lawyer like Hobert to react so quickly.

Hobert's speech continued: "May I ask everyone, don't you find it strange that a work-related injury compensation case has attracted the attention of the entire Backlund?

"Why is it getting so much attention? It's because the defendant wants to escalate the situation and lose compensation.

"Otherwise? Why would everyone pay attention to an ordinary work-related compensation case?"

When Hobert said this, everyone in the audience agreed, especially those noble children. It was indeed the first time they had heard of a work-related injury compensation case.

　There is another chapter at noon!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)