Legal Clanger's Case Notes: The case of the Ninth Earl

[major_clanger]

If Charles Dickens and Mervyn Peake had collaborated they might just have come up with a case like Parker v Parker (2003). This is a very long judgement and mostly concerned with legal minutiae, but the scenario as outlined in the first couple of pages is indeed like a bastard hybrid of Bleak House and Gormenghast (and for that matter, the Judge's historical notes at Para 3 hint at a connection with Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver). Ruined castles, blind Fifth Earls and vintage Dennis fire engines, this case has the lot.

MC