I had an intellectually interesting day today: false imprisonment in Torts; unconscionable bargain in Contract; the headnotes to R v Rongonui , a case about a drug-addict single mother with a violent past who snapped when her next-door neighbour on a council estate refused to babysit her kids so she could deal with a CYFS complaint and then stabbed the neighbour 160 times (and who successfully used the provocation defence to murder); and this case from the Employment Court (24 pages, PDF). The... read more
