Small conference room No. 2 in City Hall.
Lu Ming, Li Guan, chief judge of the Ninth Circuit Court, Gou Youwei, director of the Beiguan Procuratorate Branch of the Supreme Procuratorate, Zhang Xiaosheng, chairman of the Beiguan Legal Affairs Office, and lawyer representative Liu Hanming.
Legal professionals in Beiguan discuss legal work.
After Christine became the Chief Justice of the High Court, the position of Chief Judge of Beiguan remained vacant for more than two months. Finally, the Privy Council nominated and the Donghai Parliament approved the appointment of Li Guan as the Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court.
In fact, Li Guan may be the first Central Continental chief judge in a city with a population of more than 500,000 in the history of the kingdom.
However, with such a quiet appointment and calm taking office, everything went smoothly naturally.
There has never been any explicit stipulation that the chief judges of courts across the kingdom can only be Westerners, but the Grand Duke's Privy Council, governors, etc., who have the right to nominate, often do not consider judges other than Westerners.
Donghai, as the most prosperous metropolitan area of the empire, has its chief judge of the local court now being a Central Continental. This is of great significance, but it does not seem to have caused much sensation. Perhaps, many people know that with the progress of the times, such things will happen sooner or later. Now, it is just following the trend of history.
Today, Li Guan also held a symposium on legal affairs for the first time as chief judge and municipal committee member.
Although Lu Ming is a municipal commissioner and is in charge of legal affairs, in essence, he is indeed a supervisor and waiter.
Among the people present, Li Guan has the highest status in the legal field. Legally speaking, Lu Ming has no control over Gou Youwei, the director of the prosecutorial branch.
Liu Hanming is a private lawyer and has a parallel career as a municipal commissioner.
Only the Legal Affairs Office is a subordinate agency of the Municipal Committee, but its chairman, Zhang Xiaosheng, has been a subordinate of Baklo for more than ten years. He should not care about the other municipal committee members at all.
But the reality of today’s meeting rooms.
Li Guan always smiled at Lu Ming. As the judge of the first case that Lu Ming handled when he came to Beiguan, he watched Lu Ming grow up. Now, this little guy had inexplicably become a politician and was in charge of the entire legal affairs of Beiguan. From a certain perspective, his status in this office was higher than his own. Li Guan looked at this little guy and naturally felt emotional and gratified. He also felt that this little guy was really magical.
Gou Youwei, director of the Beiguan Procuratorate Branch, is in his early forties, in the prime of his life and has great hope of making further progress.
Therefore, Gou Youwei acted like a subordinate to this young municipal commissioner who had complicated connections with the Supreme Procuratorate. This young municipal commissioner even had an official office authorized by the Minister General to represent the Minister General's procuratorial power, and had handled many major cases. Gou Youwei's face was full of admiration.
Liu Hanming is Lu Ming's partner. When facing Lu Ming, he will not put on the airs of a big lawyer as he does when facing other officials and public authorities.
Even Zhang Xiaosheng was extremely polite to Lu Ming. He even took out a notebook to write down what Lu Ming said. On the surface, it was probably no different from how he treated Chief Commissioner Bucklo.
Lu Ming mentioned the concept of "cooperative apartments" and hoped that the Legal Affairs Office would issue regulations to provide owners with more legal protection.
At the same time, he also consulted Li Guan, Gou Youwei and Liu Hanming for their opinions.
In fact, most of Lu Ming’s attention is now on his back.
Biju tortured me for two or three hours last night. My back was pierced with needles so densely that I lost consciousness since last night. Even now, I still feel numb and heavy, as if something is covering me.
I really don't know what Bizhu will do to my small body on my birthday.
"In this kind of cooperative apartment, once the mortgage is paid off, you own the property, and also have the right to sell and lease? So, what if I pay off the mortgage in a year?" Li Guan took the concept of "cooperative apartment" proposed by Lu Ming very seriously and had the most questions.
Lu Ming smiled and said, "That's definitely not possible. If you can pay off your mortgage in one year, you are definitely not among the owners of the cooperative apartment who can get special permission to raise funds from the bank. That means there is a problem with the review. But it doesn't matter. There will always be gray areas, and some people will find ways to find loopholes. So, we increase the tolerance rate. The houses in the cooperative apartment have a 30-year term. During these 30 years, you can only live in them and cannot resell or rent them, even if you have paid off your mortgage and obtained the property rights."
"If you become rich in the next thirty years and are no longer a member of the common people, then congratulations, but you still can't sell this house. Just keep it as a memory!"
Li Guan nodded gently: "Yes, this is more rigorous."
Gou Youwei also laughed and said, "That's right. You have become rich now. One should remember the well-digger. This house was your motivation for working hard. It would be nice to keep it for a few years to recall the good times."
Liu Hanming smiled and said, "Yes."
In fact, as a lawyer representative from the public, if other officials put forward some suggestions and hope to get professional feedback from the legal community, they will definitely find fault with them and give them a few whippings before anything goes wrong.
Lawyers should be the vanguard in questioning public power.
But when facing my partner, I can even say that he has become my guide.
Liu Hanming naturally acted out of character and turned from a tiger into a sheep at the symposium.
Zhang Xiaosheng smiled bitterly. This meeting was going on. Even if Mayor Baklo was sitting here, these wolves would not be so gentle to him.
Someone knocked on the door gently, pushed it open and whispered something to Duan Guimi who was sitting behind Lu Ming.
Duan Guiyi stood up and walked to Lu Ming's side. He leaned over and whispered in Lu Ming's ear: "Boss, Commissioner Sherlock is outside."
Lu Ming nodded and smiled: "I'll go out for some fresh air, you guys continue the discussion."
Lu Ming came out and sure enough, Sherlock was outside.
Sherlock pointed his thumb at the small conference room number 3 opposite and pushed the door open.
Lu Ming followed in and said with a smile, "Old Xia, what's the hurry? I'm almost done with my session, can't we talk about it after that?"
Sherlock closed the door. There was no one in the small meeting room. He smiled and said, "It's not easy for you to come to the City Hall. I don't have to go to your places to block you. But I have to pay attention all the time. If I miss you at a glance, you will disappear. There is no other way. I have to look for you whether you have finished the meeting or not."
Lu Ming casually pulled up a chair and sat down. Sherlock stood, leaning on the oval conference room table, and suddenly sighed, "Pirlo, that little bastard! He pissed me off. Qian Xing, thank you. Um, Liu Teng, right? Prosecutor Liu told me that if it weren't for you, he would be in big trouble this time."
Lu Ming smiled and said, "It hasn't involved any crime in the first place, but if I don't stop in time, I'm afraid it will be very troublesome in the future."
Sherlock sighed, "Qianhang, you don't know, this bastard, I get annoyed when I look at him for even one more second, but my wife loves him very much... My wife is an only child, and doesn't have many relatives, so she treats my cousin's son as her closest relative..." Hesitated for a moment, "Qianhang, do you think you can give him a community service order or something? A small punishment, a big warning?" He gritted his teeth, "It would be best to lock him up for a few years."
Lu Ming smiled and said, "Then you have to provide some reporting materials."
Sherlock looked towards the door, thought for a moment and asked, "If a community service order of a year or so is required, what does it take..."
Lu Ming waved his hand: "Old Xia, we really can't continue this discussion. Okay, I'm leaving!"
Sherlock nodded: "I understand! Qianxing, pay attention to your office this afternoon to see if there are any new reports! This bastard is about to leave for the Western Regions. If he really goes, he might cause some trouble!"
Lu Ming pretended not to hear.
…
In the afternoon, I took the opportunity to put on my big black-framed glasses and my student uniform and went for a walk around Fernald College.
Nowadays, coming to school is no longer for a diploma to confuse files and pretend to be a local. Plans cannot keep up with changes, and there is no need to pretend to be a native local.
It's not for the purpose of learning Western languages. There are so many translators around me that I'm too lazy to learn Western languages.
It’s not really a family secret. Now is not the time to reveal it. If I do it myself, I have no clue.
I can only wait until my birthday to see what Biju will say to me.
I came to school today, probably because I felt a little tired and wanted to change my mind on campus.
Maybe it’s because I didn’t really graduate from college in my previous life. Sometimes I always feel that I haven’t really completed my studies and should still be a student.
However, he left after just one physical education class. Moreover, he did not go to the playground to run laps with his classmates during the class, but went to practice tennis. Otherwise, his level was too poor. It was really embarrassing for a grown man to be beaten up by Christine.
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After getting into the black stretched luxury car and changing into casual clothes, Duan Guiyi handed over the microphone, "Boss, there's a call from Longgang, and the person's name is Liu Sili."
After special modification, the car phone receiving system is in the car behind, and the telephone is in this car.
The voice on the microphone was Liu Sili's. Of course, if Duan Guimi hadn't said it first, it would still be hard to hear. Firstly, he didn't look that familiar; secondly, the signal from the car phone had a more serious distortion.
"Mr. Lu, I finally found you!" Liu Sili said anxiously, "There is good news and bad news."
Lu Ming nodded, "The good news is that Hu Ergou has been caught, right? Now tell me the bad news." In the morning, Master Gong sent a secret message, detailing how Hu Ergou was caught.
Liu Sili was stunned. "You must have known about Hu Ergou's matter a long time ago. Yes, you must have known about it." He sighed again and said worriedly, "Bad news, really bad news. At noon, a messenger from Heishan came to the town. Hei Laoliu asked our mine to pay a security fee starting from this month, 1,000 yuan per month, and said that we should hear back within three days!"
Hei Laoliu is the largest gang in the Black Mountain gang. It seems that Jingyang Mine has to pay protection fees to three gangs, and the Hei Laoliu gang is one of them.
However, the Sansha Mine is different from the Jingyang Mine and is far away from the mountainous area.
Liu Sili hesitated and said in the microphone: "Mr. Lu, my father meant that 1,000 yuan is not a lot. Although we are more than a hundred miles away from the mountains, there have never been bandits harassing our town. But if they really come, it will only take half a day. Since they don't have a big appetite, we don't need to provoke them, right?"
Lu Ming thought for a moment and said, "I'm going there tomorrow. I'll talk to you when I get there."
"Okay, okay!" Liu Sili agreed quickly.
Lu Ming put down the phone and thought for a moment: "Go to the Liberty Building."