Legal Wit Archives : 2015

Legal Wit — Costs For Everyone!

Both parties have declared victory, the appellant because he obtained a new hearing on sanction and the respondent because it was successful on eleven of the twelve points raised, including five allegations of professional misconduct.

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Legal Wit — Like the Cheshire Cat

Having reviewed the relevant case law, and with great respect for all those who hold a contrary view, I am not at all satisfied that the Supreme Court of Canada has directly, or by necessary implication, overruled R.

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Legal Wit — Straight from Lewis Carroll

I confess to finding the situation rather surreal — one, indeed, that would have excited the admiration of Lewis Carroll.

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Legal Wit — Plant Psychiatrist?

In 1947 that irreverant sage George Bernard Shaw made this observation: To expect an average farmer to be not only a sower and a reaper, but an agricultural chemist, an accountant, a meteorologist, a veterinary expert, a merchant, a financier and a resident housekeeper all united in a single Admirable Crichton is ridiculous; yet this is our practice.

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Legal Wit — New Career Options For Santa

I have reviewed the affidavit of service and I must say that I have grave doubts as to its accuracy.

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Legal Wit — Brevity is the Soul of . . .

I do not regard the length or thickness of the evidentiary and rhetorical record as necessarily revealing much, because a great volume of material may actually indicate that the lawyers spent too little time preparing the matter.

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Legal Wit — Unfortunately Prescient

Perhaps the persons involved in naming the Cranberry Village project were prescient in that cranberries grow naturally in bogs.

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Legal Wit — What Lurks Behind the Fun

George Orwell warned that lurking behind the fun offered by competitive sports is the threat of the arousal of "the most savage combative instincts".

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Legal Wit — Moderately Controlled Bedlam

In the midst of legal proceedings respecting the division of family property, how the petitioner thought breaking and entering his estranged wife's home and removing a raft of chattels would assist the parties in reaching a property resolution is uncertain.

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Legal Wit — Elephant v Turtle

This is a cautionary tale of an elephant and a turtle, in close quarter.

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Legal Wit — The Cupboard is Bare

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!1   …   This case requires the court to determine the meaning of the word "from" as used in s.

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Legal Wit — If a Tree Falls . . .

If a tree is cut down in the forest, and a judge hears about it, who owns that tree? This is a contest, under s.

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