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Ad hoc reading and odds and ends worth czeching out in terms of trends and patterns
Creative legal eagle Lawyer Lunch
As US Judge Tannenwald wrote in an oft-cited opinion, Diaz v. Commissioner:53 “the distillation of truth from falsehood . . . is the daily grist of judicial life.” Diaz
is also another good example for teaching about the importance of evidence in a case. legislative grace. their tenure in office is a matter of “electorate grace.”

- Privacy, as Victorian Privacy Commissioner Paul Chadwick recently observed, is a freedom most noticed in its absence. Sadly, we only seem to appreciate what we had once it's gone.
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Ethics is an informal mode of control. “It’s the glue that stops excessive individualism.”

This hypocrisy is aptly articulated in the fable of two neighbors in rural
England, one a lawyer, one a farmer. The farmer, circumspect of
the lawyer’s wily nature, says to the lawyer, “sir, regrettably
your ox hopped over the fence separating our properties and was
gored by one of my bulls, and I wish to know whether I need to
make reparations”. The lawyer responded that of course the
farmer would have to make reparations and that he owed him
one ox. To that, the farmer replied, “very good, because actually
it was my ox that hopped the fence and your bull that did the
goring. So I suppose you owe me one ox.” The lawyer then
retorted that that was a different case with different facts and
therefore different principles applied. Disagreeing that there
could be a difference, the farmer rightfully exclaimed, “it does not
depend upon whose ox is gored!”
Long odds: a history of gambling
Human vice is the most certain thing after death and taxes, to paraphrase Benjamin Franklin.

The Winning Odds: pounds 8 on a fruit machine: 600/1; pounds 50,000 scratch-card jackpot: 2.57 million/1; top prize on the Lottery: 14.5 million/1.

Akio Kashiwagi, a Tokyo-based gambler who had once won more than $6m at Atlantic City's Trump Plaza, loses close to $10m in six days at a baccarat table. The following year he is stabbed to death in his home at the foot of Mount Fuji. Long odds: a history of gambling