On 7/12/05, Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net wrote:
In real life such "flunkies" are called lawyers, on Wikipedia Advocates. We could require advocates. However our experience with advocates is that they pay no attention to presenting evidence, a real lawyers actual function, but engage in weird Wikilawyering that harms their clients cause. Challenging our jurisdiction and demanding that we all recuse ourselves is not going to work.
I think what you're really looking for are law clerks. The only reason lawyers do all the dirty work in organizing material for courts in real life is that failure to do so harms their cases. The ArbCom is FAR more generous about such matters than any real life court. Since the current "penalty" for being uncooperative with the ArbCom is that the ArbCom will simply drop the matter without finding (or delay ruling for months), at least one litigant in every case is usually incented to be uncooperative.
Kelly