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Weird Cases
- Comic and Bizarre Cases from Courtrooms around the World
Engelsk Hardback
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Weird Cases
- Comic and Bizarre Cases from Courtrooms around the World
Engelsk Hardback

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Based on the author’s popular Times Online column ‘Weird Cases’, this book draws on extraordinary cases from many countries, including the UK, USA, Canada, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Italy, Romania, and China. The result is a highly entertaining read for anyone who enjoys reading about the more bizarre aspects of human life that fetch up in the law courts at the beginning of the 21st century.Courts have seen judges do things like try to turn off a musical tie playing “We wish you a merry Christmas” while sentencing a defendant to prison, fall fast asleep in the middle of trials, flip a coin to decide a case, demand a foot massage from a clerk, and get sentenced for judicial racketeering. Courts have listened to the defences like that of a bogus dentist caught using DIY tools on his patients, a man who based his defence on being as hapless as Homer Simpson, and a woman who was running a brothel from an office in the criminal courts. Courts have seen a litigant sue for becoming pregnant by a stray sperm in a swimming pool, and a litigant suddenly strip naked before the judges. The cases featured in Weird Cases are those that truly stand out as odd, even among all the unusual dramas that challenge the courts. The chapters are: Compensation and Punishment, Love and Sex, Food, Drink, and Drugs, Judges, Death and Violence, Pets and Animals, On the Road, Lawyers, and Jurors, Friends, and Neighbours.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
159
ISBN-13:
9780854900619
Indbinding:
Hardback
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ISBN-10:
0854900616
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Udg. Dato:
1 dec 2009
Længde:
17mm
Bredde:
223mm
Højde:
146mm
Forlag:
Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing
Oplagsdato:
1 dec 2009
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