The task of the common law system is not the pursuit of truth, but the arbitration of the adversarial disputation of the truth. In a post-modernist world where truth is personal and experienced, the common law court system is the last stronghold of dispassionate inquiry into the truth. The court’s role in that system is to hold fairly the balance between the contending parties without itself taking part in their disputations.
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