Date: Thu, 10 August 2006 14:44:00

From: Steve Hedley

Subject: Law's (Il)logic

Perhaps we ought to reverse the question. Do anyone know of any judicial statements which require logic in judicial decision-making? If so, which sort of "logic" is involved?

Steve Hedley
Faculty of Law University College Cork

-----Original Message-----
From: Hector MacQueen
Sent: 10 August 2006 15:33
Subject: RE: ODG: RE: Law's (Il)logic

Perhaps worth adding to the list of "logic" quotes the following from the Lord President (as he then was) Lord Rodger of Earlsferry in the First Division of the Inner House of the Court of Session in the Piper Alpha case -

However logical such an argument may be, it does not represent the law. The life of the Civil Law, no less than of the Common Law, "has not been logic: it has been experience."

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