I recently came across a bizarre court case. A consumer was attempting to assert his rights in court regarding an unfair loan agreement he had entered into many years ago. He therefore filed a lawsuit with the court, along with a motion to secure his rights by suspending his obligation to make loan payments. He was calmly awaiting the court’s consideration of the case when he suddenly received a response stating that the court did not intend to hear his case. The terrified consumer was astonished to learn from the letter he received from the court that, in the court’s opinion, he did not live where he actually lived, but rather with his parents 200 km away, and therefore the court would not hear his case. Written statements from the poor consumer’s poor parents—explaining that their son had not lived with them for 20 years, that he was, after all, an adult, and that he had become independent and moved out many years ago—were to no avail. The courts at both levels (the lower and “higher” courts) firmly maintained that they knew better where anyone lived, even though they had never even seen the poor consumer in person. It smacked of laziness and …
Is that really what the judicial system is all about?
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