Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:36

From: Michael Furmston

Subject: John Murphy and more on animals

As a dog-loving contract lawyer I hesitate to intervene but it is Sunday evening - at least in Sydney.

In the case of Michael's father might there not be a principle of excessive force?

In respect of short and long cases there are two oldies which are worth looking and are both still regularly cited.

Re Thames (Dagenham) Dock - Two Judgments in a single page.

Attwood v Small - argued for 48 days before the House of Lords and with judgments of appropriate length. Hard to measure because English Report pages are very large.

I have seen a 20th century House of Lords case where the appeal was dismissed after hearing argument but without judgments.

Michael Furmston

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