Fallen From Thy Lips

The moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on and the court, unlike Proust, is unable to transform time lost into time regained.

This is not so much a case of “Hamlet without the Prince” as Hamlet without any of Polonius, Gertrude or Laertes (or Rosencrantz and Guildenstern without Hamlet, Claudius or the Player).

Reference to the great works is leavened with some lighter observations:

Where there’s a will, there’s a relative.

The facts of this case could only have taken place in Australia.

“Purposive construction” is not a mechanism for demonstrating that the glass slipper actually does fit on Cinderella’s sister’s oversized foot and thus Cinderella’s sister is Cinderella, when it does not and she is not.

“Clever, whimsical yet erudite, this lifetime’s assemblage of judicial sayings will amuse and bemuse. Required reading for wordsmiths.” – Hon R Andrew McGechan KC