Legal Wit Archives : 2014

Legal Wit — Bad Timing.

[The Defendant] may have seen the headline in today's Metro newspaper : "Gunplay Continues".

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Legal Wit — Dangerous Combinations

Intuition and self certainty are a dangerous pair.

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Legal Wit — Is the Court Gullible?

The Defendant attempts to leave the impression that it is all the Plaintiff's fault the cheque was not honoured.

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Legal Wit — Was Romeo a Prowler?

…the Crown may have proved all the elements of this offence, including the mens rea contained in the words "loiter or prowl," but Parliament has recognized that those words have elastic qualities and may, after an explanation advanced by the accused, lose their pejorative meaning.

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Legal Wit — A Rose By Any Other Name?

In Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare famously wrote, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

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Legal Wit — Bad Drivers

It is a favourite pastime of almost all Canadian drivers to complain about the driving exhibited by all other Canadian drivers.

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Legal Wit — Hot Spices and Moral Turpitude

When one removes the rhetorical salt, pepper, and hot spices of conclusory adjectives of wrongdoing and moral turpitude, [the plaintiff]'s cause of action for fraud can be distilled to … constituent elements of material fact                  Holley v.

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Legal Wit — Poop and Scoop Litigation

I cannot help but comment that the courts as public institutions are already bursting at the seams with all manner of claims.

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Legal Wit — Meanwhile, in Cottage (Litigation) Country . . .

A cottage, a camp, a cabin, a country house, a ranch: these are the different names given to second homes across Canada.

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Legal Wit — The Marine Happiness Scale

If a voyage aboard the Love Boat is at the top of the happiness scale in seafaring surely the North Atlantic on a trawler during the winter months must be very near, if not precisely at, the bottom.

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Legal Wit — No Copyright in Commonplace Technique

… copyright law does not require novelty in order to find a work original.

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Legal Wit — Kafka- or Solomon-esque?

The situation presented is almost Kafkaesque, and may well be one which will leave non-lawyers and lawyers like shaking their heads (in disbelief).

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