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Steve Hedley |
| Date: |
Sat, 19 Jan 2002 13:02:31 |
| Re: |
Annual Lecture in Jurisprudence and Public Policy |
At 13:32 17/01/02 -0500, Lionel wrote:
It gives me great pleasure to announce
that on Thursday 14 March 2002, Professor Peter Birks will give the
Annual Lecture in Jurisprudence and Public Policy at the Faculty of
Law of McGill University. The title of the lecture is "Conscientious
Enemies of the Rule of Law". All are welcome.
This was puzzling at first, given the lack of any obvious
connection with restitution. But then I realised that a title like that
is meant as a challenge to our collective ingenuity. Having thought long
and hard, I can only see two possibilities.
Perhaps the talk is really about restitution on frustration
of contract. In fact, the title conceals a succinct summary of the issues
in the leading case of BP v. Hunt [1979] 1 WLR 783. It is an anagram of:
"Oil flow safe? Cut! O no! I see enrichment! Sue!"
On the other hand, the talk might really be a critique
of the notoriously unsatisfactory law on restitution for wrongs. For the
title is also an anagram of:
"Loot enrichment, felon? I sue, we sue. Fiasco!"
Obviously I could be missing something here, and others
may have noticed a more satisfactory solution. I throw the matter open
for general discussion.
Steve Hedley
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