Bedsworth: Pondering the Difference Between a Car and a Horse in Australia
Why did it take an Australian judge four days to read an opinion in a case where the key issue was whether the plaintiff was involved in an automobile accident when he was thrown from his horse? Good question.
October 11, 2019 at 04:00 PM
9 minute read
"In my youth," said his father, "I took to the law, / And argued each case with my wife; / And the muscular strength which it gave to my jaw / Has lasted the rest of my life."
That little snippet of doggerel is from Lewis Carroll, the guy who wrote "Alice in Wonderland." I'm not much of a Lewis Carroll guy. Leo Carrillo had more influence on my life than Lewis Carroll, and that wasn't much.[1]
But the Carroll excerpt would serve well as the motto of Australian judge Garry Nielson.
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