Ah! Appeal straight to the department in charge!
Administrative cases...
Honestly, they were generally difficult to handle.
In Northern Capital, administrative cases made up a fairly large share of litigation.
Most law firms in Northern Capital also liked handling administrative litigation.
If a department had committed an administrative violation, that was precisely the kind of case Northern Capital lawyers liked best.
But that only applied to law firms in Northern Capital. After all, Northern Capital held a special position.
There were certain safeguards in legal matters, especially those involving administrative violations.
Elsewhere, however...
How should he put it...
Administrative cases almost always involved unlawful administrative conduct.
And unlawful administrative conduct could involve administrative interference in judicial outcomes.
That was why local lawyers generally preferred not to take administrative cases.
First, administrative cases involved local departments, which could affect a law firm's development or a lawyer's personal prospects.
There was no need to jeopardize one's own future over a single case.
Second, even if you won an administrative case, enforcing the judgment would be difficult.
That was what so many people meant when they said, "Fighting an administrative case is as good as fighting for nothing."
Why?
Because even if you won,
the defendant-the administrative department-might not carry out the relevant measures ordered by the court.
Enforced execution?
Getting a court to compel the relevant department to comply was far too difficult!
It was practically unrealistic.
That was why administrative cases were considered difficult to fight, and why most local lawyers were unwilling to take them.
Losing would damage their reputation, while winning would still leave the judgment inadequately enforced.
It put them in a dilemma.
Su Bai had not handled many administrative cases.
The Bridge-Building Case had involved administrative litigation.
But the issues in the Bridge-Building Case had primarily concerned