Oh FFS! Buyer of my car issued court summons!

[airportparking]

Any updates? Or has the OP already been banged up!

[RRH]

Nothing to report- assuming he's paid the hearing fee, we're in court at the end of January

[gaz1234]

cool.

[blueg33]

If it goes to court, can you let us have the time and location? I feel like turning up to see what a muppet looks like

[anonymous-user]

blueg33 said:

If it goes to court, can you let us have the time and location? I feel like turning up to see what a muppet looks like

A little like this?

[spikeyhead]

garyhun said:

blueg33 said:

If it goes to court, can you let us have the time and location? I feel like turning up to see what a muppet looks like

A little like this?

Where's that pic of Soovy and Tonker Waldorf and Stadler?

[0a]

I'm amazed this is still going on...

[spikeyhead]

0a said:

I'm amazed this is still going on...

I'm currently reading Bleak House by Dickens. The case alluded to started in real life in 1790 and ended in 1915 when the estate ran out of money. The wheels of justice grind slowly.

[Red Devil]

spikeyhead said:

Where's that pic of Soovy and Tonker Waldorf and Stadler?

Ici

spikeyhead said:

I'm currently reading Bleak House by Dickens. The case alluded to started in real life in 1790 and ended in 1915 when the estate ran out of money. The wheels of justice grind slowly.

1798 not 1790. William Jennens: the Acton miser. Jennens v Jennens
http://www.archive.org/stream/greatjennenscase00ha...

[simoid]

Watch QI last week, did we Red Devil?

[anonymous-user]

The Jennens case is an early example of a US inspired class action, and shows that the litigation culture of the US was already developing by the mid C19. It is surprising that the case staggered on for so long after the Judicature Acts of the 1870s, which swept away the moribund procedures of the old courts, but the Chancery courts were, then, as now, resistant to change, and even today they remain the most formalistic and ponderous of civil courts.

Bleak House is, I think, Dickens' greatest novel, even topping Great Expectations.

Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 18th December 07:18

[streaky]

Breadvan72 said:

The Jennens case is an early example of a US inspired class action, and shows that the litigation culture of the US was already developing by the mid C19. It is surprising that the case staggered on for so long after the Judicature Acts of the 1870s, which swept away the moribund procedures of the old courts, but the Chancery courts were, then, as now, resistant to change, and even today they remain the most formalistic and ponderous of civil courts.

Bleak House is, I think, Dickens' greatest novel, even topping Great Expectations.

Edited by Breadvan72 on Tuesday 18th December 07:18

The Yanks were quick off the mark, from the first mention of the "USA" to class actions in 22 years.

Streaky

[anonymous-user]

To be fair, the US element only came in during the 1850s. Arguably much started to go wrong for the US from about the middle of the C19. They did one very good thing (the 13th Amendment), but then started to lose the hopeful plot.

[mattdaniels]

OP has there been any progress on this?

[essayer]

OH GOD WHAT IS IN THE BUNKER

[SMGB]

Breadvan72 said:

To be fair, the US element only came in during the 1850s. Arguably much started to go wrong for the US from about the middle of the C19. They did one very good thing (the 13th Amendment), but then started to lose the hopeful plot.

Amendment 21 was good news.

[anonymous-user]

Yes, but by then the damage caused by the 18th Amendment had already set in. The organised crime dudes couldn't believe their luck.

[anonymous-user]

PS: 14, 15 and 19 are pretty rocking. These days, 2 is looking a bit sucky.

[Six Fiend]

essayer said:

OH GOD WHAT IS IN THE BUNKER

[SMGB]

SMGB said:

Breadvan72 said:

To be fair, the US element only came in during the 1850s. Arguably much started to go wrong for the US from about the middle of the C19. They did one very good thing (the 13th Amendment), but then started to lose the hopeful plot.

Amendment 21 was good news.

We did however get "Some Like it Hot" voted best film ever as a cultural benefit. Going even more sweepingly o/t Clive James said of MM she could do abstract confusion the way a midget can do small.