Dorchester, England: “A judge has criticized a council for spending £26,000 on a legal wrangle involving three noisy parrots, saying the costs were ‘out of all proportion’ to the case.” (Richard Savill, Telegraph, Nov. 1).
Chronicling the high cost of our legal system
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Schools for Misrule
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