What's wrong with this lawyer?!

Old Yu looked at Xiao Liu beside him, and after exchanging glances, Xiao Liu reluctantly began to speak, "No...nothing to say, no need to apply for appraisal."

"At this point, all we can say is that upon comparison, it's very similar. It's up to the court's discretion. If we really applied for a judicial appraisal and it resulted in a certain degree of similarity, then what do we do..."

Once it's exposed, those related departments in Lincheng won't have to think about it anymore; they should brace themselves for an investigation.

Old Sun promptly said, "Alright, the plaintiff may continue with their cross-examination."

Lawyer Tang continued, "Regarding the public sentiment report, our side has also made a real-name report, and Evidence No. 4 can prove it, but the current response is that it cannot be ascertained."

"According to the relevant legal provisions, investigations of similar situations should primarily follow the principle of leadership investigation, so when the superior disciplinary inspection departments say they cannot ascertain anything, the defendant's claims that our client has fabricated facts and is causing trouble are clearly insufficient in evidence."

He wouldn't aim his accusations at the related departments, at least not now. In a court trial, only matters related to the case are discussed; anything else the judge wouldn't be able to manage.

"Furthermore, the testimonies of the property company's witnesses are not recognized because this case itself has a lot to do with the property company, so the testimony of its company's managerial staff cannot be verified as true or false."

"As for the approval form style, the approval form our client found was from seven months ago, whereas the property company produced an approval form that is currently in use."

"The current approval form has this format, but the one from seven months ago might not have it, and actually the formats of the two approval forms are not that different."

This cross-examination sounded somewhat like specious reasoning, as companies usually have little reason to make arbitrary changes to the format of such a report; there's simply no need.

But, the property company was the one issuing the approval forms, and the bribery actions targeted the property company as well. Thus, under such circumstances, one could make that assertion.

In a situation with conflicting interests, your evidence is just not credible.

How to prove it? Just by producing the approval form used seven months ago would suffice, with a clear date on it, then the proof would be strong.

Logically, it should be easy to produce, but the property company did not do so; instead, they presented the current one, and that gives us something to ponder.

Old Sun looked down at his documents and then said:

"The court investigative phase is concluded, we'll now commence the court debate. The plaintiff, please state your case first."

Lawyer Tang started to speak at length; he intended to resolve the issue once and for all.

The core of his argument was, your two new pieces of evidence don't hold up, and we have already made a real-name report without results. Therefore, your claims that we are spreading rumors and fabricating facts to cause trouble are clearly lacking in evidence.

As for why the superior department would say it can't be ascertained, you can ask them yourselves. Anyway, that was their response, and they didn't provide a written reply.

Zhou Zhixing, sitting next to him, watched as Lawyer Tang made various arguments, overwhelmed with excitement. He never expected that this time it felt like they clearly had the upper hand!

Just the real-name report alone could directly crush the opponent. Initially, when Lawyer Tang asked him to make the report, he hesitated, and now he really felt like slapping himself...

It's said that a good strategist has no remarkable achievement; lawyers are the same. People like Lawyer Tang, unless it was absolutely necessary, like with Old Wang's matter when he had no other choice, would resort to legal tricks during a trial.

But that was a last resort, like walking a tightrope. If there wasn't that moment of inspiration, they would have basically lost the case.

In a regular trial, one plans carefully before acting, collecting all the necessary evidence beforehand, considering all possible scenarios, and then confronting them one by one in court, winning the case with steady and solid efforts.

"So are you saying, with the same materials as before, you can make another ten days of detention happen, right?" Lawyer Tang's smile remained serene, but his words were excruciatingly pointed.

Yu Niandong across the room really didn't know how to answer. What was he supposed to say?

That they didn't look carefully? Or that they looked carefully and found nothing?

Either way seemed wrong, so he remained silent, hoping that silence would suffice.

He was just an employee; remaining silent now was fine, the worst-case scenario being a lost lawsuit. But if he said something he shouldn't, he could be the one to take the blame.

After Lawyer Tang asked several times without result, Old Sun above spoke, "Alright, the court debate is over, do either of the parties have anything else to supplement?"

At this point, Old Yu and Xiao Liu came to life, indicating nothing to supplement.

"Then this case is adjourned for now, and the verdict will be announced on a chosen date."

There wasn't an immediate verdict, which meant this was another case that would require discussion by the adjudication committee. Lawyer Tang picked up his briefcase and turned around, "Let's go."

Zhou Zhixing hurriedly followed suit.

Yu Niandong and Xiao Liu exchanged glances, their faces full of wry smiles. Such matters were truly troublesome, they had better hurry back and report. After all, it was none of their business, at most they'd get a few scoldings.

The related leaders soon learned of the trial proceedings, and they were genuinely baffled.

The key was the attitude from above; they said they couldn't ascertain it, not "no problem exists," so it gave the opposite side a very substantial argument.

The leaders themselves said they couldn't ascertain it, so obviously, it would be wrong for them to come out and declare there were no problems.

The key was the opposing party was Tang Fangjing. Based on this person's habits, after the end, he would definitely post the case online, and thinking about that outcome was unnerving...

But they had no way to counter, threatening the other party not to post it online, saying if you do, we'll arrest you?