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Let your next career move come to you.

So farewell then, Professor Sir Guenter Treitel

Author of the Law of Contract.  A humbling intellect.

One of the many stars from the kindertransport.

I bet his will is in order.

sounds like he was a nice and impressive man, but I've never liked his books

his written style wasn't very clear and he seemed to find it difficult to distinguish points of law from points of fact. his law of contract makes the law of contract seem much more confusing than it really is.

I found Treitel on Contract way too fussy.  Contract is Lego - you can do many things with its many elements, simple or complex, but its principles are simple. Treitel thought it was all sculpture.

Some sort of limerick must be in order.

 

So goodby Professor Sir Guenter

Heff says you're a bit of a cuenter.

Sir Oliver Popplewell

Knew his estoppel well

A Cheshire and Fifoot type puenter.

The works of Professor Paul Craig

On administrative law were quite vague

We were all called to muster

When he set foot from Worcester 

But avoided his lectures like plague.

Just before I went up to read law 

I was told to read Williams before

So I read to page three

said Hmm hmm: not for me

& said fook off glanville you whore

I was taught land law by "Teddy".

For Professor Burn's oeuvre I was not ready.

He held Christ Church in thrall

With his feoffees and all

But in my case he did in my heady. 

 

For Treitel, full title was vital.

But for Hopkins a trust was enough.

If it's not in the contract or recital

then Guenter would say it was "tough".

But Hoppy would point to the duty,

Quote Wodehouse and light up his pipe.

"Now no-one can dispute its beauty

compared to this contractual tripe".

 

 

The godfather of Contract is Chitty

The themes he drew out were not bitty

His language was vital

(Unlike Guenter Treitel):

In the Temple he was famed for shouting "titty"

For bills of lading and contracts of affreightment

Scrutton is the most authoritative statement

For bottomry and Brexit

Dick Aikens can shake it

Whilst for scatology best try Carver on Excrement

hmm, my shipping one needs to lose a few words

For bills of lading and contracts of affreightment

Scrutton is the authoritative statement

For bottomry and Brexit

Dick Aikens can shake it

For scatology try Carver on Excrement

on conflict use dicey & morris

heads and shoulders rised above the chorus

Renvoi! said j collier

then boshed more bollinger

and thus puked in a manner decorous 

For professionals who err and confuse

And whose clients are left quite bemused

There's only one book

That's worth a good look

Jackson & Powell: liability insurers' true muse

Spencer Bower on estoppel and waiver:

His prose was concise and to savour.

Alas modern writing

Is rank, not enlightening.

It's technique not mere length that finds favour

Those two fellows, that Hart and that Dworkin

Stayed up all the night loudly talkin'

Try as hard as they might

They couldn't agree whether a law had to be right

So they gave in and ended up porkin'

 

Robert Goff wrote a lengthy compendium

Restituting whomsoever did come to him.

Engorging his tool

He said, "Come on fool

If you don't change your position, contra proferentem."

There once was a writer called Clarke

Who lacked any sign of a spark.

Then Lindsell said "Why"

"Is your text quite so dry?

Let me sex it all up for a lark." 

 

That EU directive, what does it mean?

The client's nervous brow glistens with sheen.

Craig & De Burca will know,

Says her solicitor: but, oh no,

That'll all change come this Hallowe'en.

An old chap called stutter once wrote

"i learned all my caselaw by wrote"

when put to the test

in a court, i attest

it looked like he just was a scrote

m'lord, i thinknthe intention is clear enough in the drafting (or would be found so had I used that clause in 2000 contracts at an unnamed MC firm when conteated by VULTURES)

There once was an eminent academic

Who caused an erection of the Buzz dick

His troublesome groin

Went unnoticed by Prof Grainne

As when turgid it was still microscopic

 

Heffalump has been at the vino sacra

 

 

There once was a lawyer called Cross

Who wrote some inordinate dross.

On evidential law

He surely could bore.

And his students did not give a toss. 

 

Wasn't / isn't Grainne de Burca a constitutional / administrative / EU lecturer? You did well toget a desmond if you answered the criminal paper with references to Factortame etc.

if your query is “what is a partner?”
ignore tolley and chitty and gardiner
but our friend blackett ord
will leave you quite bored
becoming more of a pencil sharpener

In the 90s Paget was best for banking

But by now he might have lost his ranking.

I don't care if he's out of favour

Cos he gives my shelves a smart arse flavour.

(I'll get my coat ...)

When choosing ‘twixt Treitel or Chitty

It’s all about law’s nitty gritty.

one is a tome

you could read when at home 

but the other’s remarkably shitty. 

Hubert Parry lived in the village next door to me, I discovered recently, and wrote the music to Blake's poem Jerusalem on the organ at Lynchmere Church at the top of the hill above Shulbrede Priory where he lived until his death.  I sing in the choir there.  His ghost is ever present.

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