A New Miscellany-At-Law: Yet Another Diversion for Lawyers and Others

ISBN-13: 9781841135540 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 388 str.

Sir Robert Megarry

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Should horses in Charleston be required to wear diapers? Which verse in the Old Testament was the life-saving 'neck verse'? May sexual intercourse be conducted on a 'without prejudice' basis? These questions and many others like them are raised in A New Miscellany-at-Law. This collection of amusing legal anecdotes from the pen of Sir Robert Megarry follows the same style as its two predecessors, but consisting of entirely new material. It collects accounts of strange and remarkable cases, striking court-room exchanges, wise and witty utterances from the bench, and much else that illumines the law. For the common law world its reach is global. Although the book is primarily for lawyers, a glossary and explanatory footnotes enable non-lawyers to share in the humor. A New Miscellany-at-Law also includes jewels such as: the court's refusal to consider whether trespassing bees should be classified as invitees, licensees or trespassers; a deplorable account of a wife being part-exchanged for a Newfoundland dog; and the future Lord Denning's reference to a wife who 'was actually committing adultery while denying it in the witness box'.