Law in 101 words

Cub journalist

My friend Ilan was the editor of the Manchester Law Students’ Society magazine, which attained its literary pinnacle at that time. His ambition was to find a part time job on qualifying as a solicitor, six months law and six months playing the saxophone on a tropical island. I submitted a piece to the magazine, and, in his rejection note, he wrote: Dear Roderick, I am sorry that I cannot accept your offering. To be blunt it is no good. In fact it was so bad that I had to correct it before I could throw it into my waste bin.

Duplicates & counterparts

An instrument is executed in duplicate (or triplicate etc) if each part is executed by all the parties. Each part is an original. Alternatively one party, commonly a landlord, executes the principal document and the tenant executes a counterpart. If there is an inconsistency, the original prevails. Do not confuse this with the finding of fact in English Bridge v HMRC