Mad cat lady litigation - incs Silk, unreasonableness, tuna

[anonymous-user]

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/the-psychot...

Tom Weisselberg QC is my star pupil and I will rip the (cat) piss out of him over this one.

[anonymous-user]

I add that Tom's usual cases involve oligarchs and a gazillion dollars. He must have totes loved this one.

BTW, my somewhat weird cat is sat next to me and is drooling strangely. Maybe she fancies being fought over. More and better snacks?

[Greshamst]

And they say all psychotherapists are nuts themselves...

[FredClogs]

London, cats, psychotherapists, gardening, lawyers... It's everything that's wrong in the world.

[eldar]

Brilliant stuff, exactly what civil law thrives on.

Alan Bennett would love to write a play about his.

And cats obviously have a sense of humour.

[anonymous-user]

FredClogs said:

London, cats, psychotherapists, gardening, lawyers... It's everything that's wrong in the world.

I quite agree. The courts are already stuffed to the rafters with backlogs let alone stupid cases like this. All for a cat which is more than likely gonna get run over.

[anonymous-user]

I must confess that last year I was professionally embroiled in a dispute about several somewhat stinky cats, an old sofa, and a rusty bike. This dispute involved a police force, a descendant of the man who led the charge of the Light Brigade, and three firms of lawyers, two of them global firms. For some reason, I did not include the case in the presentation that I made for inclusion in the legal directory rankings for last year.

[anonymous-user]

FredClogs said:

London, cats, psychotherapists, gardening, lawyers... It's everything that's wrong in the world.

Hard to disagree with that.

[anonymous-user]

Cats are notorious for this, i love how the law thinks it can solve all issues. Waste of money and time, the only winners are the legal firm.

[anonymous-user]

The law does not have thoughts. The law is not a person. People sometimes think that the law can do things that it cannot do. Those people are sometimes (usually) not lawyers.

[eldar]

Breadvan72 said:

I must confess that last year I was professionally embroiled in a dispute about several somewhat stinky cats, an old sofa, and a rusty bike. This dispute involved a police force, a descendant of the man who led the charge of the Light Brigade, and three firms of lawyers, two of them global firms. For some reason, I did not include the case in the presentation that I made for inclusion in the legal directory rankings for last year.

The invoices for this must have made fascinating reading

[Wanchaiwarrior]

On the other side of the coin, are they not also trying to protect their pet from being stolen, that was not cheap to buy (400 - 1500 USD as a kitten) ?

Although 20K UKP is a lot to spend

[BertBert]

Sounds like stupid people spend a lot on stupid smug lawyers again. No news here.
Bert

[anonymous-user]

Please share with us how you know about the emotional disposition of the lawyers. I am always amazed by the spying/psionic/insight powers of PH'ers, and am glad to learn how these powers work.

The Mirror report shows that, alas, the years since 2004 have not been kind to the gardener. (cf pics in the Standard and Mirror articles). Heck, they ain't done me many favours either (I will spare you the photos).

https://www-mirror-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/ww...

Edited by anonymous-user on Thursday 16th January 23:33

[CoolHands]

the woman is clearly a stalker sort. They're probably lucky she focused on the cat.

[eldar]

The cat, Ozzy, when interviewed, said this is most amusing. I’m just waiting for one to die alone, so I can eat them. I’m a cat, what do you expect?

[anonymous-user]

Seems legit.

[anonymous-user]

The biggest laugh is the contract, or whatever supercilious document it is called. Involves a cat, a creature known to obey only laws it decides at that point in time, then changes its mind.

Edited by Thesprucegoose on Friday 17th January 00:15

[anonymous-user]

You appear to misunderstand. The cat is a cat and can do what it likes, but the gardener, who is not a cat, has made some promises to the opposing party, and possibly to the court as well, not to do some stuff. The case looks loony enough for there to be a return to the court at some point, involving an allegation that the gardener has not kept to her promises.

I wonder if supercilious was the word that you were looking for. Inigo de Montoya thinks perhaps not.

[anonymous-user]

eldar said:

The cat, Ozzy, when interviewed, said this is most amusing. I’m just waiting for one to die alone, so I can eat them. I’m a cat, what do you expect?

Stealing this.