What's wrong with this lawyer?!

Forget it, better hurry and see the leadership now, I'm guessing I'm in for a scolding.

Twenty minutes later, Wu Shunyou came out of the leadership's office, his face looking quite unpleasant.

In fact, many administrative litigations are settled through mediation, which is often referred to in the industry as "litigation-driven negotiations".

Litigation is not the goal but a means, which is an important point to remember; before you initiate litigation, you must clearly know what you want, not just that you simply feel like pursuing the case.

Take administrative litigation, for example, you normally can't see the heads of units, but through administrative litigation, you can, even if it's a deputy head.

In the past, administrative litigation didn't have much clout because it was always the lawyers who appeared in court.

Latter on, the state realized this wouldn't do, and so it issued regulations requiring the relevant department leaders to attend court in administrative proceedings.

A funny incident happened a long time ago with an administrative lawsuit against the sw; the court staff didn't know where to deliver the summons, then they thought, if the sw is the person in charge, they should directly deliver it there…

Logically it seems fine, but this method…

In any case, you get to see the leadership through administrative litigation, at the very least, that allows for communication, and mediation becomes a normal outcome.

As for now, well, no matter what, they have to respond to the lawsuit since it has been filed.

It's just that with the bank involved, it's really troublesome…

Meanwhile, at Jingzhou Bank's Chaoxi Road branch, the bank manager Yao Yuefeng was looking at the documents in hand when there was a knock at the office door.

"Come in!"

Shortly, a staff member entered, holding a document and said, "Manager, a court staff member just came by the front desk, look at this..."

The court's?

On hearing this, Yao Yuehua's brow furrowed, the word 'court' reminding her of the past issue with the 500,000.

She asked the staff member to pass over the materials and began to look closely, a court summons?

Strange, the bank hasn't been involved in anything recently, why receive a summons all of a sudden.

Looking closely, she found it was an administrative litigation, asking the bank to participate as a third party, and what was more crucial was the content inside...

Putting down the documents, Yao Yuehua took out her phone and dialed: "Hey, Elder Zhang, come to my office."

Who did what and how they did it, naturally, someone is aware.

As previously mentioned, if everything were done according to regulations, unfinished buildings would not occur.

So the appearance of an unfinished building means that someone has done some rule-breaking.

After a while, the bank manager Zhang came into the office, and Yao Yuehua pushed the documents to him, saying, "Take a look at this first."

Zhang, the bank manager, started to read the materials and his expression immediately changed.

"Manager, was this just delivered?"

"Yes, by the court, there are ten days until the court session, tell me, how should we handle this?"

How to handle it, Zhang, the bank manager, had no idea.

If it was just a matter of the other party seeking them out, it could easily be dismissed, but now it's going to court, and if it's his responsibility, pushing it away now, if exposed, would be difficult to resolve.

Thinking of Tang Fangjing that day, Zhang felt helpless, as if the other party was not letting go, wondering how much money he had taken to warrant such persistence!

"Elder Zhang, I heard they said, that Lawyer Tang had been to see you a while ago?" asked Yao Yuehua.

"He did come by, bringing Lian Hongyu with him. We had sued Lian Hongyu for defaulting on payment, but he didn't say he wanted to talk about anything that day, just asked me if the unfinished building had anything to do with us, how could I possibly answer that."

"Who could have expected that afterward he would just file a lawsuit."

And what's more, the court actually accepted the case and added their bank as a third party, the signals this revealed were unsettling.

Yao Yuehua sighed, "Let's not dwell on it, call the legal affairs over, ask her what we should do."

It wasn't long before the branch's legal affairs manager, surnamed Jia, an experienced legal specialist, arrived at the office.

"Manager, to be honest, this situation is quite troublesome. It's our bank that provided the supervisory agreement to the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, if they use that as their reason, then we'll indeed have to take on the responsibility."

"So, we'll need to clarify that each deduction was requested by the construction unit according to the project progress, and only after their approval did we go ahead with the deduction."

Now this was all they could do, even though it would certainly offend the housing authority, there was no other way.

...

Although the court session is set for ten days later, before the court date, the defendant must submit their defense and evidence to the court, which then hands it over to the plaintiff.

Old Tang had already received two defense documents.

Looking at the defense statement from the housing department, Old Tang was immediately shocked — it directly exposed a major issue: the loan from Jingzhou Bank had not entered the developer's supervised account!

Indeed, his strategy was faultless; he needed to relentlessly pursue one party and simultaneously involve the other.

That way, one of them was bound to reveal the pertinent evidence.

The pre-sale funds we're talking about are actually divided into two parts, one is the down payment and those for outright purchases.

The latter are actually fewer in number, with the majority being down payments.

Old Tang had already reviewed Sister Lian's contract before; the down payment entered the supervised account without a doubt.

However, besides the down payment, there was a bigger portion to consider, which was the loan.

Compared to the down payment, the loan was the real bulk of the funds. Once our loan was approved, the bank would transfer the money to the developer's account.

As per regulations, this had to go into a supervised account.