Oh! Yes, Dorothy, anything's possible in the US of A; especially deliciously crazy laws!
Other than the song "happy birthday to you" (ok; and maybe "Stairway to Heaven"), there has simply never been a more aptly entitled work of art than this one: Dumb, Crazy or Stupid Laws Around the World. We agonized over the use of the words "Dumb", "Crazy", "or" and "Stupid" but suddenly realized that we were proving the other side's point!
The best of the best of law and justice quotations, each with context and background on the quote and the author.
Stay away unless endowed with a very substantial IQ.
So few poems on law and justice ... Poetic justice?
The story of the Satanic possession of barrister Robert Brigges. The Devil made this lawyer do it. Satan, at once, tried to infect the officer of justice but Brigges beat him off and won us all a reprieve.
It's A Legal Matter Baby, by The Who, is an anthem for deadbeat dads.
In the 12th of the 13 book series, A Series of Unfortunate Events, San Fransisco author Lemony Snicket (pen-name of Daniel Handler) describes a schism...
Celebrity or famous lawyers - not everyone uses their law degree to trampoline into a world of oak-paneled chambers and long speeches before cranky gowned judges. Some ride their degree to new, unexpected - even offbeat - heights.
Contempt of court is a deadly serious matter. Why anybody would risk a fine, jail time or, err, their right hand messing with a judge surrounded by armed sherriffs is beyond us. But if there are people crazy enough to play with fire, we'll be there pen a 'ready!
There were more! How was I to know?! I went ferreting through the English Statutes and - gasp! - I found more ... more crazy English laws!
Finally ... law and justice come to TV or, err, uhh, a computer screen?! Anyway, I digress for here is none other than the ultimate, unedited (some coarse language!) best law or justice videos in the entire world! Note that we're just geting started with these as video's in deposition or Courtrooms is still in its infancy but for now, as of 2007, these are Justice's Craziest Videos!
Ok! Ok! Leave me alone. I'm sick of all those e-mails whining for more Crazy American laws. Here! Take it! Now leave me alone!
What with the benefit of centuries of hoity-toity royalty and barons, earls and the like, the Mother country of the common law just cannot be undone when it comes to crazy laws. My lords, my ladies, other ladies and gentlemen, we give you England!
Lawyurs do make misteaks or erros, although rarly. But when it hapens, the consekwences can be gravity.
Famous last wills and testaments over the ages of human history.
All you ever wanted to know about this website but were afraid to ask ... and you'll soon discover the merit in the expression: "trust your first impressions".
Oh yeah! Oh baby! Oh yeah! Here we go! Funny Lawyer ads! Bring it on! Uh-huh! It's my party! Uh-huh!
Jennifer Jones, curler and lawyer, biography.
All these great legal stories, from antiquity to the OJ trial, and no place to put them. So what do we do? Fill up landfill sites? No siree; not us. We're your favorite legal information web site!
Don't even think of ever using the word LawFun including mental inaudible or thought reproduction(s) and any such use shall be brought to a big, scary court where you'll be the DEFENDANT!) in actually preventing all persons of unfun disposition. If you have made it this far, our studies show that YOU ARE A KID!
This stuff is for real, man! Law - justice - legal .... all the weird but totally true stuff is all here, man! You ain't gonna believe it, man!
More? Yes! Believe it or not!
More, crazy but true and amazing facts from the history of law and justice.
The believe it or not - except that this stuff is true - of law and justice.
Bring it on! Bring it on! Oh, how the mighty can be wonderfully weird.
And then there were 6 ... six ... seize ....
These are the bad guys of the law; men or women who have perverted justice while, for the most part, trained and gowned in the black sanctity of the sacred profession of law.
Keenan Kester Cofield is an American icon. Amongst his many legal actions, his "greatest hit" was probably suing MacDonald for $1-billion for denying him extra sauce pack for his Chicken McNuggets™, claiming racial bias. You be the judge! (Hint: the final resolution of the case, in 1998, can be described with a word that rhymes with "pissed"). The world is full of Cofieldisms. Read on!
There are few cases with more Jerry Springer appeal than the cases which must decide whether the insult de jour is defamatory or not. So find out how you can call anyone a cheap bastard, an old maid or an illiterate half-baked crank and maybe get away with it!
Q: Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people?A: All my autopsies are performed on dead people.
Eventually, while in Court, lawyers multitask and trying too hard to think ahead, utter a stupid question without really being aware of it until it's too late (myself excluded, of course). Here's what you get: The Dumbest Things Ever Said In Court!
Why does the law society prohibit sex between lawyers and their clients?
A: To prevent clients from being billed twice for essentially the same service. Let's hope I don't get disbarred for this page. Gulp! Well, here goes: The Funniest Darn Lawyer Jokes In The WDWW!
The official police statement re a certain N. Claus.
Colorado Justice Scott knew but one way to describe the fallacies of stare decisis and that was to borrow a few lines from New Hampshire poet Sam Walter Foss.
Observing a full-body-furred creature, walking on all fours, speaking a foreign tongue, one can never be too sure, especially so close to the coast of France. But granting due process of law to a monkey is more than what would normally be expected of British justice.