Re: Who remembers this guy?

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From: The Todal
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:27

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"Mike_B" <usenet@localhosts.net> wrote in message 
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> In message <1187588983.874978.217410@e9g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, Arthur 
> Brain <arthur_brain1@yahoo.co.uk> writes
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Godfrey_%28physics_lecturer%29
>>
>
> The article begins by claiming that a legal precedent was set by his 
> settling out of court. I stopped reading there.

He was the claimant in the celebrated case of Godfrey v Demon, which is an 
important judgment and worth reading. It did set a precedent. It was an 
interlocutory judgment and afterwards Demon settled out of court.

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/1999/244.html

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