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No wonder ordinary people have growing contempt for judges.
I am seriously injured in an accident and told I cannot survive beyond a week. I wish to ensure that my son, who completely defied me in marrying a woman who then cheated him out of all I had bestowed on him, gets no more of my wealth. I am fully competent and transfer my entire wealth to a friend overseas, who has spent her life in an organisation providing education and medical treatment to children. I die happy. But if I believe, as most people think the law provides, that my money is my own, to be disposed of on death entirely as I have lawfully provided, a judge can defy me, jump in and say No, it is more appropriate for someone else to have it. Dickens not only was but still is right, except that it's not the Law but the Judiciary who are asinine.
And I would add that, so long as there are humans, esp children, who live in any form of want, then any judge with a humanitarian mind (Can you lawyers tell me if there are many?) who was charged with deciding where such funds would go would direct them to alleviating human misery, while that of animals can be terminated cheaply along with their lives.