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The Court of Prestations is a solemn place, and Judge Thanister in particular is known for his meticulous impartiality, but even he couldn’t help rolling his eyes when PeopleFirst’s lawyers presented their 65th petition seeking repeal of Jamper’s Law.
‘Thanister can grimace all he likes,’ said PeopleFirst’s Executive Director Crosten Prise Metashter afterwards. ‘Jamper’s Law is an invidious piece of legislation. It’s so long that ordinary people can’t reasonably be expected to read it all, and even lawyers struggle to understand just about every one of its more than a thousand sections. In the past decade it’s been responsible for over twelve thousand appeals to Pleading Courts, and of those almost two thousand were appealed to the Court of Prestations. Jamper’s Law serves two functions: it puts innocent people in jail, and it makes money for lawyers.’
Government spokesman Ormstak Bemfrist was quick to condemn PeopleFirst’s latest court action. ‘Jamper’s Law may be old, but it’s effective. Last year five thousand criminals were jailed, and over three trillion bars of revenue was recovered, under Jamper’s Law. It’s an effective instrument of government, and the government fully expects the Court of Prestations to refuse this petition, just as they refused the previous sixty four.
QRIS legal correspondent Emfra Coltin comments:
Jamper’s Law has been controversial ever since it was enacted over four hundred years
ago. Largely the work of the man for whom it was named, a senior government draftsman
called Umble Jamper, it was intended to replace all other legislation at the time,
and to make the need for future lawmaking redundant. It was enthusiastically enacted
into law by 18th Chancellor Frismal Tix, shortly before he was diagnosed with terminal
brain-
Jamper’s Law challenged again