Leading cases in song : a lawyer's companion / Stephen Todd ; illustrated by Murray Nicol ; music format arrangement by John Pattinson.

OPERA. -- Mrs Carlill and the Amzing Carbolic Smokeball -- 1. Our question for the day asks if a promise is contractual -- 2. Behold the smokeball flu preventioner -- 3. Poor suffering me -- 4. Silence in court -- 5. My lords, we make a claim today -- 6. The gazette of Pall Mall -- SONGS. -- 7. Pepsi-points -- 8. An artful scheme -- 9. The baronet and the garage man -- 10. Is God a person? -- OPERA. -- Donoghue v Stevenson -- 11. We love the judges' law -- 12. Let's go to the Wellmeadow Café -- 13. Entrance of the peers -- 14. We are the judges of the court of law -- 15. Lord Atkin -- 16. A rule of liabilitee -- SONGS. -- 17. Trespassing bees -- 18. All of human action -- 19. A life of woe -- 20. Those supersized Big Macs -- 21. Defamat'ry, defamat'ry -- 22. Porn shocker -- OPERA. -- Very private lives -- 23. Privacy getting safeguarding -- 24. The racing car supremo and the tart -- 25. In flagrante -- 26. They can't think why -- SONGS. -- 27. A branding tool -- 28. Baked beans on toast -- 29. A writer's lot. -- APPENDIX -- Musical scores.

Legal disputes can be both comical and bizarre. Indeed the facts of a number of famous law cases almost beg to be set to words and music and celebrated in a comical book. This is just such a book and the reader (or singer) will find inside a large number of leading decisions of the courts (plus a few not quite so leading) presented as songs, with every one set to a different tune taken from the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. They are all based on decisions which in one way or another are entertaining or diverting and/or which raise particularly interesting questions for the law to resolve. Readers will discover entirely new ways of appreciating Donoghue v Stevenson, Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co, R v Brown and many others.