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Donoghue
v Stevenson Oz style
Lord
Atkin’s locus classicus may have very well been decided
differently if the scene had been set in an Australian pub. Anyone
who has gone Down Under and been offered a bottle of Australian
wine complete with Witjuti grub (read ‘edible preserved
caterpillar’) is unlikely to be able to bring a claim against
the manufacturer or the bottle-shop, as liquor retailers are
commonly called there. This original Australian brew is apparently
deliberately concocted and considered some kind of delicacy.
It’s
a bug’s life, after all, neighbour principle or not! And a
‘G’day, mate’ to you!
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Waiter,
there’s a snail in my restaurant
Whilst
we here relax in ‘Re:Lex’, the restaurant located at the
premises of the Law Institute of Victoria goes by ‘Snail N the
Bottle’, probably a joke only lawyers will ‘get’ and
appreciate, and whose palates will remain unaffected when they
grab some grub, as it were.
And,
around the corner from the Law Courts, lo and behold, the
unabashedly named ‘Legalities Restaurant and Bar’ where many a
robed, bibbed and wigged barrister is seen sipping his java! |
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What a mouthful of or the Art of Cross-examination
A
following true exchange in a recent case in the UK, recounted in
Balance — Law Soci ety Northern Territory (May 2000) magazine:
Question:
When he went, had you gone and had she, if she wanted to and were
able, for the time being excluding all the restraints on her not
to go, gone also, would he have brought you, meaning you and she,
with him to the station?
Opposing
Counsel: Objection. That question should be taken out and shot!
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| Getting into Irish stew
(reproduced
from the Irish Law Society magazine)
Source:
High Court on circuit in Bristol, 1996
Judge:
Ladies and Gentlemen, I am extremely sorry to have gathered you
all here today, as a rather embarrassing situation has arisen. I
left my judgment at home and am afraid there is nothing that can
be done.
Junior
Counsel: (trying to be helpful) My Lord, fax it up.
Judge:
Yes, it does, rather.
And
with that rather loaded comment, his Lordship left the courtroom
— leaving stifled laughter and shocked reactions all round, no
doubt!
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| What's in a Name
Plenty
if these US law firm names are anything to go by.
Ketchem
& Cheatem (Georgia)
Wild
& Wooley (California)
Gooing
& Cumming (California)
Silver
& Gold (New York)
And
then there was the San Jose attorney named Stromer, who had a
client called Banjo!
Or
was that Alabama …
One
wonders whether our own Legal Profession (Naming of Law Firms)
Rules 1996 are therefore a blessing in disguise! |
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