Legal Wit Archives : 2014

Legal Wit — A Fool to Trust

All professionals rightly seek to build a name for themselves and inspire confidence in their firms.

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Legal Wit — The Law: Not an Ass. This Time

The Dickensian character, Mr.

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Legal Wit — Too Swift Arrives as Tardy as Too Slow

"Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

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Legal Wit — Incomprehensible Conduct

The conduct of the Appeal Board demonstrates such disregard for fundamental legal principles that it can only be explained by the fact that its members are not legally trained.

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Legal Wit — Long on Indignation

The 54 paragraphs of the statement of claim, which the plaintiffs prepared themselves, is long on indignation but somewhat short on respect for the rules of pleading.

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Legal Wit — Revolving Door

Repeat bankruptcies are now almost as common as injury lawyers.

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Legal Wit — Self-Taught Self-Dentistry: Bad Idea

If there was ever a case indicative of the need for counsel, this is one case where that need is extreme.

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Legal Wit — Arguments Compared to

In his refusal to be bound by the common law, that is the authoritative interpretation of laws by judicial precedent, Mr.

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Legal Wit — Wishing Doesn't Make it True

Dressing up its pleading as the Plaintiff does cannot overcome the fact that absent a contract between the parties the Plaintiff cannot have an interest in the land.

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Legal Wit — Making a Silk Purse out of a Dog's Ear

But as I earlier intimated, such a finding does not intimidate counsel for the defendant as he says that as council has declared that these matters amount to an "emergency" such cannot be questioned.

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Legal Wit — A Kafka-esque Vortex. Sounds Good.

This application arises from one of what I understand are 1400 plus Canadians caught in a vortex under a portion of that legislation that would have impressed Franz Kafka.

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Legal Wit — Red Handed

It seems that the Bank got caught with its hand in the cookie jar.

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