Bugger !
We scrimped and saved and sacrificed (lots) to save enough pennies for our own Choc Frog machine, we dd. But it looks as though we may be obliged to hand it over to 'Lead Balloon'.
Finally, at long last, in this post on the UP – HERE – the bare bones of the Buckley saga meet solid 'legal logic'. The legal Eagles really don't see the world as us simple folk do, they have a very different 'take' on how it all works. I expect that is why they need to go to 'law school' and get qualified in the black arts.
'Law' is a strange business; what may seem perfectly logical and straightforward to the 'practical' mind can be and often is, turned upside down by an inappropriate sentence – action or even in a 'word'. It was once explained to me thus: your intention may have been to be doing 100; proven fact is you were doing 101. Legal at 100 – fine for 101. I know, it ain't usually that close run a race; but 'intention' no matter how well meant; v 'fact' will loose every time; in law. It would be a Bobby with an evil, inflexible, tunnel vision disposition who would prosecute the case; and, it would probably never happen. But rest assured if the stakes were high enough he would; and probably win.
As LB say's - “the crux of the matter is”:-
Sanguine thanks for a nicely articulated argument.
Toot – toot.
We scrimped and saved and sacrificed (lots) to save enough pennies for our own Choc Frog machine, we dd. But it looks as though we may be obliged to hand it over to 'Lead Balloon'.
Finally, at long last, in this post on the UP – HERE – the bare bones of the Buckley saga meet solid 'legal logic'. The legal Eagles really don't see the world as us simple folk do, they have a very different 'take' on how it all works. I expect that is why they need to go to 'law school' and get qualified in the black arts.
'Law' is a strange business; what may seem perfectly logical and straightforward to the 'practical' mind can be and often is, turned upside down by an inappropriate sentence – action or even in a 'word'. It was once explained to me thus: your intention may have been to be doing 100; proven fact is you were doing 101. Legal at 100 – fine for 101. I know, it ain't usually that close run a race; but 'intention' no matter how well meant; v 'fact' will loose every time; in law. It would be a Bobby with an evil, inflexible, tunnel vision disposition who would prosecute the case; and, it would probably never happen. But rest assured if the stakes were high enough he would; and probably win.
As LB say's - “the crux of the matter is”:-
Sanguine thanks for a nicely articulated argument.
Toot – toot.