Tokyo Barrister: Start the law firm bankruptcy

Chapter 683 Kitahara's Final Statement

The entire meeting room was silent.

Everyone was waiting for this lawyer Kitahara to speak. He was just a young man, but at this moment he possessed a terrifying pressure.

At the beginning, they came to the rescue of the female lawyer in the court, and then they dug up evidence of bidding fraud in Shinjuku City Hall from various sources again and again. The past scenes were linked together, and until they returned to the meeting room today, the city hall officials realized what a terrible opponent they were facing.

Kitahara straightened his somewhat messy suit and tightened his tie slightly.

He walked to the middle of the conference room and said:

"Today's case, I think, illustrates very vividly why our citizens have long distrusted the institutions here."

"I'm talking about you." Kitahara pointed at the city hall officials present.

"And you."

The young lawyer pointed to Ishiwata.

This deputy director of the Development Committee holds real financial power in Shinjuku City.

"Including you."

Kitahara turned around and did something that no one could have imagined. He slowly raised his hand and pointed at the judge Iwasa on the stage!!!

Such an action immediately stunned many people present.

During the previous trial, Kitahara also pointed at the city hall officials present with his hands.

And now, he actually made such an unreasonable gesture to the judge of this case.

When Judge Iwasa saw Kitahara pointing at him, he seemed shocked and his expression became very complicated.

"Yes, what I mean is that the citizens don't trust all of you here!" Kitahara said.

"Before I entered the meeting room, I heard the voice of public lawyer Hamano. He said that we cannot use simple values ​​such as justice and fairness to judge whether the decisions of municipal agencies are reasonable."

The young male lawyer sneered immediately.

It was as if what the other party’s public lawyer said was a huge joke.

"Let me translate what attorney Hamano said. He simply meant to say that citizens have no right to comment on the decisions of municipal agencies."

An extremely simple sentence.

In an instant, the hideous face wrapped in Hamano's exquisite words was exposed.

"Are municipal agencies institutions that serve the citizens, or are they institutions that manage the citizens? I think the laws of the East have already clearly defined this. What makes me particularly curious is where the arrogance that has been shown by public servants who are supposed to serve the citizens from the trial of this case to the present comes from."

"What qualifications do you have to face the public so arrogantly?"

The man in the grey suit asked back.

There was dead silence in the conference room.

The city hall officials who used to whisper to each other fell silent.

"You have a lot of complaints." Kitahara's voice continued, "You complain that the citizens don't understand you, you complain that the citizens are making trouble for no reason, you complain that the citizens don't understand the law, you complain that the citizens are nagging you all day long, you complain that the citizens are stupid, you complain that the citizens are selfish, you complain that the citizens don't cooperate with your work, you complain that the citizens are taking legal action against you out of venting their anger."

"In short, it is the citizens who are slowing down your governance."

"It would be great if the citizens were intelligent, law-abiding and understanding enough! I guess your city hall probably thinks this every day." "But the problem is, if our citizens have achieved the above points, what do we need you to do?"

"Why don't our citizens trust you enough?"

"Why are our citizens unwilling to cooperate with you?"

“The logic behind this is very simple.”

"That is--"

“Have you obeyed the law yourself!!!”

Kitahara suddenly raised his voice.

This rhetorical question was like a huge rock suddenly thrown into the calm lake.

"Take a look at yourselves in the mirror." Kitahara walked around the meeting room, his eyes sweeping over every city hall official present, until finally his eyes stopped on Ishiwata, "Have you obeyed the law? Have you set an example for the citizens? Have you taken the initiative to hold yourselves to the standards of the law?"

"Of course, you are also human and you will make mistakes. The question is, after you make a mistake, do you reflect on it? Do you apologize to the public? Do you correct your mistake?"

"Today! Deputy Director Ishiwatari is also here!" Kitahara stepped forward, less than one or two meters away from the city hall officials, "The presidents of the five companies that you owe a large amount of municipal project funds are also sitting here to listen! Please look at my clients! Look at them! Answer them! When will your city hall pay them back the money they owe!!!"

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Kitahara's voice echoed in the conference room.

It was like the roar of the king of beasts, scaring the birds away.

Ishiwata had never been questioned like this before, and his body shuddered uncontrollably. What a shame, what a shame today! ! Ishiwata's hands trembled in anger. He was actually scolded by a small lawyer.

Kitahara then turned and looked at Iwasa, the judge of the case.

"If we still hold a laissez-faire attitude today, it doesn't matter even if the test samples in the bidding are swapped, it doesn't matter even if the presidents of the companies involved in the bidding are husband and wife, it doesn't matter even if the bids of different companies have the same paragraphs, it still doesn't matter. Even if the security guards of the building deliberately blocked some of the personnel of the companies participating in the bidding and deliberately made them late. Such absurd things don't matter!"

"You don't care about anything."

"Then why should the citizens care about you?"

"Since you ignore the citizens, why should the citizens care about you?"

“Why don’t the citizens trust you? If the people who enforce the law take the lead in not abiding by the law, why should they trust you?”

“Trust is a precious thing.”

“Once it’s damaged, it’s very difficult to repair it.”

"Today, the Tokyo Metropolitan Finance Department has an opportunity to repair its relationship with the citizens. My client is not seeking revenge against the city hall for losing the bid. On the contrary, we suspect that there was unfairness or fraud in the bidding for this project, and we have evidence to support it. We have done our best to provide evidence."

"We know that the High-tech Industrial Park is the most important investment project in Shinjuku. Precisely because it is the most important project, we need more fairness, more justice, and more scrutiny of whether the interests of citizens have been infringed in this project."

"The evidence in this case is sufficient to show the existence of unfairness and fraud. All the projects involved should be ordered to re-tender in accordance with the law. In order to avoid further doubts from the public, the bidding information of the projects involved should be made public in accordance with the law."

"Whether to choose to mend the rift between citizens and city hall, or to allow mutual suspicion to grow further."

"Now, the choice will be made by the Tokyo Metropolitan Finance Bureau."

"We citizens await your decision."

"That's all. That's all."

(End of this chapter)