Keithambrose

Olddaddy, you don't moan all the time.

Under achieving family, his brother was a law lord!

Personally, when young, I had no real view about capital punishment. At Oxford, however, Punishment, purpose, etc, was part of our Jurisprudence course. I heard an impassioned talk from Professor Rupert Cross, that convinced me that capital punishment was wrong. Interesting man, Cross, the senior law Professor, he was the Vinerian Professor, very eminent, and blind! Had Braille lecture notes.

Not bad for someone who posted that he never dances!

PS. Well spotted, to locate the case!

Afraid so! Our clients were Granadex and Tracomin, who controlled most of the peanut imports into Europe. Granadex was controlled by M. Gaon, who owned the Noga Hilton, as it then was. Note the letters of his name! Camilla, etc were American, and they included Carter Farms, as in the family of Jimmy Carter! Our clients were based in Lausanne, and I got to stay in the Beau Rivage Palace Hotel, the most luxurious hotel I had then experienced! A different claret every night! As i recall, Denning, in the Court of Appeal, started his judgment:- "This case is about peanuts, in common speech a thing of little worth, in this case worth many millions of dollars.." He had a great gift for words. He also gave judgments that were easy to understand. Not always the case. Try Lord Brandon! Hailsham did not sit in many cases. He was not a law Lord, he could only sit as Lord Chancellor. That doesn't happen nowadays, indeed, we have had a Lord Chancellor who is not a lawyer.

Not sure what the point is of the reference to Broome. However, an interesting saga. The case was well known, involving a Book by the controversial David Irving, attacking Captain Broome over his conduct as commander of the destroyer escort of Convoy PQ17. The allegations were untrue, to the knowledge of the author, and publishers, who published anyway, calculating that they would make more profit than they had to pay in damages. This is a justification in England, for punitive, or exemplary, damages, a favourite weapon in the US, but very restricted in the UK. Denning, and his 2 colleagues, upheld the award of punitive damages, awarded by the trial judge. The Court of Appeal criticised a House of Lords earlier decision, Rookes v Bernard, that restricted the award of exemplary damages. When Irving and the publishers appealed Broome to the House of Lords, the Lords upheld the award, and dismissed the appeal. However, as mentioned, Hailsham criticised the Court of Appeal for saying that a previous House of Lords decision was wrong. He was right, in fact. Under our system of precedent, a decision of a superior court is binding on a lower court, however wrong it may be. It can only be reversed by Parliament, or a subsequent decision of the superior Court. Much though I admired Denning, if you could ignore precedent, it would make the job of people like me, advising clients on the outcome of litigation, very difficult. Denning was well known for supporting the rights of deserted wives, and was overturned several times by the House of Lords, on this issue, until Parliament changed the law, and he was vindicated. Interestingly, in a case I had, that was decided by him, about peanuts (!), we lost, but succeeded in our appeal to the House of Lords! Denning was himself promoted to the House of Lords, quite young, but was often out of favour with his colleagues. He was then offered the position of Master of the Rolls, which is the head of the Court of Appeal, and realised that, although a step down, he could have more impact on the law in that position, as only very few cases go beyond the Court of Appeal, to the House of Lords. He was right.

"I am posting this in the Gay Bangkok section. Although not specifically gay info, they do have a couple live spitting snakes (cobras) on display, so that is close enough to qualify this entry into the Gay Bangkok section of the forum." Excellent!

We may find out....

He could have been from one of the silent Orders.

Meridien has a vast selection. But no Black pudding!

Has anyone tried rubbing chili on the tip of their cock? I read some guys like it!

Depends what you order.

Very good!

It was intended as a criticism of Trump.

Yes, go back to Welsh Celts, 1,000 years ago.

can't imagine my friends being big eaters anyway. Perhaps they are better at swallowing?

Cf Dorothy Parker

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Chives, actually!

And the UK. House of Lords just inserted a ban in a Government bill going through parliament. It will be removed when the bill goes back to the House of Commons, as the Government say they are going to make their own proposals.

No, green.

I manage well, without being on any of these.

Yes, i dream in vivid colours!

Same here, rather lucky. There is alcohol, but I can cope with having a drink!