Timeline for What to do with answers that offer legal advice?
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| Feb 21, 2019 at 21:26 | comment | added | Iñaki Viggers | @user6726 "The problem with your answer is that it doesn't answer the question asked". It certainly does. The question is "What, if anything, should be done about answers that appear to offer legal advice? Downvote? Flag?" and my answer starts with "Neither", at which point the follow up question "How can one identify such answers?" becomes moot. The rest of my answer debunks the fallacy "answers that contain legal advice are illegal", thereby supporting my position and that of one commentator. Per your suggestion, I will post a similar answer to that policy question as well. | |
| Feb 21, 2019 at 20:23 | comment | added | user6726 | The problem with your answer is that it doesn't answer the question asked. You're arguing with the motivation for the rule, not accepting that it is a rule and seeing what flow from that. You should have posted this as an answer to the above-linked policy question. | |
| Feb 21, 2019 at 9:53 | comment | added | Iñaki Viggers | @Nij "it's an answer based on a strawman". No, it actually disproves your straw man that the mere act of giving so-called "legal advice" on LawSE is "illegal unlicensed practice of law" in the jurisdiction "where Stack Exchange is based, particularly ". The last excerpt of case law in my answer cites case law from other jurisdictions as well, whence it is dishonest or very sloppy for you to say that my answer is "not based" on case law. If you expect an answer will (or that it even can) encompass "other thousands of jurisdictions", you are setting yourself for big disappointment. | |
| Feb 21, 2019 at 6:02 | comment | added | user4657 | Cool, a single jurisdiction might make it okay to give specific legal advice in the sense used on Law SE. What about the other thousands of jurisdictions, including those where we have already been told it is explicitly illegal to give such advice in any circumstances? Gonna quote their case law too? Gonna make a lot of every place where it is okay and every place it isn't, and under what conditions, so we know whether we're safe to ask the question or respond to it with specific legal advice? Of course not. This isn't an answer based on case law - it's an answer based on a strawman. | |
| Feb 19, 2019 at 21:21 | history | edited | Iñaki Viggers | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 19, 2019 at 21:05 | history | edited | Iñaki Viggers | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 19, 2019 at 20:22 | history | answered | Iñaki Viggers | CC BY-SA 4.0 |