I suspected that the law contained its fair share of oddities that may be of interest to judges, lawyers, and lay readers alike. What I did not anticipate was that it would prove to be an almost inexhaustible mine of creativity by judges, humour, sarcasm, and, at times, the bizarre alongside the sublime. Every time I thought the record of absurdity on a particular theme to be complete, another case emerged to remind me that imagination is not confined to poets and criminals.

I suspected that the law contained its fair share of oddities that may be of interest to judges, lawyers, and lay readers alike. What I did not anticipate was that it would prove to be an almost inexhaustible mine of creativity by judges, humour, sarcasm, and, at times, the bizarre alongside the sublime. Every time I thought the record of absurdity on a particular theme to be complete, another case emerged to remind me that imagination is not confined to poets and criminals.