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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