Leading cases in song : a lawyer's companion /
Stephen Todd ; illustrated by Murray Nicol ; music format arrangement by John Pattinson.
- 228 pages : colour illustrations, music ; 31 cm
OPERA. -- Mrs Carlill and the Amzing Carbolic Smokeball -- Our question for the day asks if a promise is contractual -- Behold the smokeball flu preventioner -- Poor suffering me -- Silence in court -- My lords, we make a claim today -- The gazette of Pall Mall -- SONGS. -- Pepsi-points -- An artful scheme -- The baronet and the garage man -- Is God a person? -- OPERA. -- Donoghue v Stevenson -- We love the judges' law -- Let's go to the Wellmeadow Café -- Entrance of the peers -- We are the judges of the court of law -- Lord Atkin -- A rule of liabilitee -- SONGS. -- Trespassing bees -- All of human action -- A life of woe -- Those supersized Big Macs -- Defamat'ry, defamat'ry -- Porn shocker -- OPERA. -- Very private lives -- Privacy getting safeguarding -- The racing car supremo and the tart -- In flagrante -- They can't think why -- SONGS. -- A branding tool -- Baked beans on toast -- A writer's lot. -- APPENDIX -- Musical scores. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29.
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.
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