Other Lives But Mine by Emmanuel Carrère

Author:Emmanuel Carrère
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781473567597
Publisher: Random House

I wound up doing something like an internship anyway and confirmed what Étienne had said: that a juge d’instance is the judicial equivalent of a neighborhood doctor. Overdue rents, evictions, garnished salaries, guardianships for handicapped or elderly people, lawsuits involving less than ten thousand euros (anything above that belongs in the tribunal de grande instance, which occupies a more elegant part of the courthouse). Anyone frequenting the court of assizes or even the criminal court would admit that the civil matters handled by the tribunal d’instance are meager indeed. Everything is petty there: the wrongs, the stakes, the reparations. Most people there are poor, true, though their poverty hasn’t yet slid into criminality. The judge is mired in daily life, with struggling people whose difficulties are both ordinary and insurmountable, people who don’t even show up in court, as a rule, and neither does their lawyer because they don’t have one, so the judge simply sends them the verdict via registered letter, which half the time they don’t dare go get at the post office.

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