Tokyo Barrister: Start the law firm bankruptcy

Chapter 655 Arrogant
After hearing what Kitahara said, some city hall officials couldn't control their expressions.

A man who looked like a secretary quietly stood up, went out of the back door of the conference room, and made an urgent phone call to Ishiwatari of the Development Committee to report.

This young man must be crazy.

This was the thought of everyone on the City Hall side of the floor.

First, he represented the company in this administrative adjudication case and sued the city hall. This had already offended most of the legal circles in Tokyo.

Now, they even directly proposed to classify more than half of the projects in the high-tech industrial park as illegal bids and ordered them to re-start the bidding activities. How many people will be offended by this? You know, many of the winning companies may have complex networks of relationships behind them. This is simply ruining one's career.

Hamano also couldn't understand why the young man in front of him would do this.

What exactly motivated him to do this?

Why would he go to such lengths for his client, even to the point of breaking with the powerful?

Hamano knew that the two young lawyers opposite him were from the University of Tokyo.

But aren't famous universities like the University of Tokyo cultivating sophisticated egoists?! During their four years at university, they think about how to socialize, how to meet important people, and how to have a high-tech and stable future job. This is what a normal college student thinks.

But why would they go to such lengths? !

Iwasa, the judge on the stage, was also unable to react for a moment. When he saw the record typed into the computer screen by the clerk, he realized that this lawyer Kitahara was going to turn the entire Shinjuku district upside down. Iwasa did not ask again because he saw Kitahara's gaze.

For some reason, the moment he saw the look in the young man's eyes, he knew that nothing could make him back down.

Maybe, things are really going to turn upside down.

Who would have thought that it would start with such a young man.

At this moment, Hamano also knew that he could not let Kitahara gain the upper hand any longer. He quickly stood up and retorted, "The other party's lawyers filed a lawsuit against more than 40 projects in the High-tech Industrial Park, claiming that there were illegal bid openings. I believe that our Shinjuku City Hall would never knowingly violate the law to such an extent."

"I just looked through the other party's lawyer's materials." Hamano continued, "Many of the accusations of illegal bidding are just groundless and malicious speculations, without any real and detailed evidence to support them."

The public lawyer continued to refute:
"As you mentioned just now, the building security maliciously prevented you from entering the building to participate in the bid opening meeting. Is this true? Why were some companies able to participate in the bid opening meeting smoothly? In addition to the winning company, five other companies also arrived at the bid opening room smoothly before 2 pm. Why were you late? Don't you see what's wrong with you?!"

Hamano retorted strongly.

The public lawyer's strategy emerged.

Hamano knew that it would be very difficult for Kitahara and his team to obtain direct evidence of fraud in the bidding. They could only infer the existence of fraud from indirect evidence. Just like the ecological runway project just now, Kitahara and his team could only find indirect evidence such as the difference between the weight of the sample for random inspection and the weight of the sample for testing.

As for how the city hall and businesses collude in detail.

As outsiders, there is no way they could know.

Therefore, the best strategy for this public lawyer is to stick to his guns and firmly deny the existence of any illegal behavior. The other party only has circumstantial evidence.

As long as they hold on tight, the City Hall will have the upper hand in the end!
Miyakawa couldn't help but get even angrier when he heard what Hamano said. "Lawyer Hamano, you can definitely go and check out the surveillance video of the building at that time. The security guards of the Management Committee building refused my client to enter the building because it was not working hours. Do you think this is normal! If it is possible to enter through the back door, why didn't the Bidding Committee inform my client in advance?!"

Hamano ignored Miyakawa's rebuttal and went straight to the second example that Miyakawa criticized: adding documents and modifying bid prices after the bidding deadline.

"Miyagawa," Hamano said, "I looked at the materials carefully for the second example you mentioned. It's not what you said at all. You said that at the bidding site, someone still added additional materials after the bidding deadline."

"However, the bidders were actually providing the originals of some documents in the bid for verification by the tenderer," Hamano said. "The law does not prohibit the bidders from providing the originals to assist the tenderer in verification after the deadline. On the contrary, it is necessary. They did not actually provide new materials to the tenderer."

Hamano keenly seized another excuse.

If you miss the bid deadline but still submit documents, you are not actually submitting new materials, but providing original documents to the tendering party for verification.

As for whether the bidding materials provided were original or new, it is hard to say since there was no surveillance video.

"You are talking nonsense and lying in public!" Even Miyagawa couldn't help but accuse Hamano to his face.

Miyakawa considered lying a serious accusation.

Because she herself is a person who attaches great importance to promises.

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However, most of the listeners present were probably masters of lying.

Such angry words have no killing power at all to them.

Hamano continued to refute: "As for Mr. Miyakawa, what you said about modifying the quotation after the bidding documents were closed is also not true."

"They are not modifying the quotation at all. The tenderer provided two quotation methods. The first one is to quote the price based on the total years of the project, and the second one is to quote the price based on each year. They just changed the quotation method from the first one to the second one. In essence, they are the same. The second quotation can be multiplied by the service years to get the price of the first one. How can this be called a modification of the quotation?!"

This public lawyer brazenly refuted the claim in the conference room.

The two young lawyers on the opposite side look aggressive. Suing so many projects would be a fatal weakness.

The weakness is that the more cases are sued, the less likely the Tokyo Metropolitan Finance Bureau will conduct a serious review.

As a lawyer who has been dealing with various agencies for many years, Hamano is very familiar with the rules that operate here.

The rebuttal on behalf of the City Hall echoed in the conference room.

Every word he said was filled with an arrogance that disregarded facts and reason.

A kind of arrogance that belongs only to those in power.

(End of this chapter)