Why Did the Lawyer Cross the Road?

Chinese judges: they’re just like ours. They lament how profit pressures are making the practice of law much more of a business and much less of a profession.
At a recent conference, Hong Kong judge Andrew Li Kwok-nang stated: “To put it bluntly, mercenary considerations have assumed much greater prominence at the expense of ethical standards.” He provided this example:

Mr Justice Li cited the case of a client who asked his lawyer for a breakdown of his bill. The itemised account included a charge for “recognising you in the street and crossing the busy road to talk to you to discuss your affairs, and recrossing the road after discovering it was not you”.

Oh those Asians, they’re so hard to tell apart…
P.S. We’re Asian, so we can get away with this.
P.P.S. Whether Asians are more difficult to tell apart than white folks strikes us as a legitimate question, due to the reduced variability in terms of obvious characteristics like hair and eye color. For more on the subject, check out this website.
Chief justice laments rise of greedy lawyers [South China Morning Post (subscription)]
Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? [ChickenJoke.com]

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