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Sun, 08 Jun 2008
Straight Talking Lords
I think I've discussed my love of the straight talking, and perhaps slightly insane, Law Lords before. Here's another example, this one from Froom v Butcher, [1976] 1 QB 286, one of the "seatbelt cases", and a clear announcement that damage reductions for contributory negligence were about who caused the harm, not who caused the accident:
... Quite a lot of people, however, think differently about seat belts. Some are like the plaintiff. They think that they would be less likely to be injured if they were thrown clear than if they were strapped in. They would be wrong. -- Lord Denning
"They would be wrong." has to be the judicial equivalent of 