Tokyo Barrister: Start the law firm bankruptcy

Chapter 635 Unfair

The entire conference room fell into a silence that was difficult to describe in words.

When the great lawyer Hamano was trying to force the male lawyer on the opposite side into a corner with a series of fierce questions, no one could have imagined that the male lawyer could resolve Hamano's questions with just a few simple words.

In these few words, many city hall officials actually felt a little scared. The reason they were scared was not because of the amazing debating skills displayed by the male lawyer on the other side.

It was because they felt that the male lawyer had the power of common sense.

common sense.

These two words.

It is easy to say, yet difficult to do.

However, when you are surrounded by a technologically complex maze, it can tear off the layers of disguise and reveal the true face of what is in front of you.

Hamano also didn't expect that his question would be so easily blocked by this young male lawyer. This public lawyer who had experienced countless cases, big and small, was extremely experienced. When he glanced at Kitahara, in that instant, he seemed to see a black monster with red eyes sitting in the conference room.

Afterwards, everything returned to normal.

Hamano's intuition told him.

The male lawyer across the street is dangerous.

However, no matter how Hamano looked at the lawyer Kitahara sitting opposite him, he looked like a college student who had just graduated for one or two years.

Rational judgment tells me that there is nothing to worry about.

Indeed, the lawyer had just refuted himself. But that was just one or two clever witty remarks. It was not a decent argument at all.

"Mr. Kitahara, you said so much, but you avoided the most basic question." Hamano said, "That is, legally, does Shinjuku City Hall have any legal obligations to comply with the Municipal Procurement Supervision Law and other laws and regulations in the High-tech Park project? If so, which law and article in effect at the time did it follow?"

Hamano raised his voice again and asked back.

The public lawyer got to the heart of the matter.

This is indeed not something that can be answered directly with any metaphor, analogy, or witty remark.

For a moment, everyone in the conference room focused their attention on the male lawyer again.

Beiyuan's expression was very calm. He picked up the materials on the seat and began to flip through them, not knowing what he was looking for. He lowered his head, and the "rustle, rustle, rustle" sound of flipping through the materials echoed in the quiet conference room.

Even though all eyes were on him.

To him, it was as if nothing had happened.

Just like a shameless naughty student in campus.

"Mr. Kitahara, please answer me!" Hamano pressed further. Hamano did not expect that the lawyer opposite him would be so calm, and he slowly read the materials under everyone's gaze.

After a while, Kitahara looked up with an A4 paper in his hand.

The words "Balance Sheet" were printed in large letters on the paper.

Filled with tables and densely packed numbers.

In addition to the tables and figures, there are also notes at the bottom to explain the contents of the table. "This is the balance sheet of the municipal enterprise wholly controlled by your Shinjuku City Hall. Can you confirm it?" Kitahara said, "It is listed in the appendix of the Shinjuku City budget."

The clerk in the meeting room took the materials and passed them to Hamano. The assistant beside Hamano then took the materials to confirm with several city hall officials sitting behind the seats, and then whispered to Hamano several times.

Hamano then said, "We have confirmed that this is indeed the balance sheet of Shinjuku City Municipal Industrial Co., Ltd."

Traps are always set silently.

Before the prey realizes it, it has already stepped into the trap.

Hearing the other party's answer, Kitahara's mouth curled up slightly.

"Please pay attention to your liabilities," the young male lawyer said. "According to your balance sheet, Shinjuku City Municipal Industry Co., Ltd.'s liabilities accounted for about 45% of its total assets that year. Among them, all liabilities were interest-bearing bank loans. According to the notes, the loan was provided by Tokyo Chuo Industrial Bank."

"That is to say, the funds of municipal enterprises include not only their own funds, but also funds obtained from bank loans. According to Article 54 of the Municipal Procurement Supervision Law that was in effect at the time, if the funds used are funds obtained from bank loans, they are regarded as fiscal funds. If self-owned funds and bank loans are mixed, they are uniformly regarded as the use of fiscal funds. Based on this, the High-tech Park project should be subject to the Municipal Procurement Supervision Law and other laws!"

The young male lawyer suddenly created a new point of attack.

The company is controlled by Shinjuku City Hall and has bank loans.

Then, you can’t tell clearly whether the high-tech park project uses self-owned funds or bank loans.

A seemingly irrelevant question turned out to be a roundabout attack from a thousand miles away.

From a seemingly unrelated balance sheet, it finally connects to the attributes of using funds.

At this moment, there was a possibility that the situation might be reversed.

Hamano didn't expect the other party to be able to take advantage of this. Indeed, according to the regulations at the time, projects carried out with bank loan funds were considered to be using fiscal funds. This is because the city hall will eventually need to use fiscal funds to repay the bank loan. Therefore, the law made such a special provision.

However, it is simply sophistry to conclude that a company is mixing funds of different attributes simply because it has loans!

After adjusting his thoughts for a moment, Hamano immediately launched a counterattack, "Lawyer Kitahara, according to what you said, as long as there is a little loan, it is considered mixed funds and the law of procurement supervision should be applied. How can this be justified?! This is obviously a deviation from the original intention of the law!"

"The bidding amount for the Hi-Tech Park project is already comparable to the size of your bank loan. Why can't it be considered as using the bank loan funds?" Kitahara hit back strongly.

"But don't forget! The scale of our municipal enterprise's own funds also exceeds the bidding amount of the High-tech Park project!"

"Are all the projects of your municipal enterprises added together smaller than the scale of your own funds?"

Kitahara and Hamano had a heated debate in the conference room.

Just when the situation seemed to be tilting in Kitahara's favor, the voice of Iwasa, the judge, was heard. Iwasa interrupted with a rather cold expression: "Do you have any new opinions to express? If not, we will begin the review of the city hall's behavior in the high-tech park project."

Beiyuan's attack was suddenly interrupted.

For a moment, this allowed Hamano to escape temporarily.

Miyakawa felt it was unfair to see Iwasa interrupt the trial. Just now, Hamano had been asking a series of repeated questions, and Iwasa had not stopped him. But now, he was being interrupted by his own continuous attacks.

"Judge Iwasa! We believe that we should be given a full opportunity to speak out on this issue!" Miyakawa couldn't help but say.

"This is not a court! There's no need for such a confrontational debate!" Iwasa's cold voice came.

(End of this chapter)