Gunns writ large

POOR THINGS.

The eminent lawyers pro-bono standing shoulder to shoulder with the Gunns 20 defendants must be a tad discombobulated by the tactics of the lawyers for Gunns.

Hag, reeling slightly whilst taking a vicious little shiraz next to a bewigged (or was that her hairdo) local legal Eaglette in a bar which in Hag’s hullucinogenic state seemed to be straight out of Rumpole, heard that Gunns’ revised version of their Statement of Claim is a real doozy.

Now for you, who like moi, am habitually ignorant, a Statement of Claim is a document in which the Plaintiff sets out succinctly what the complaint is.

In normal litigation, a Statement of Claim is about five or perhaps 10 pages long, Eaglette pronounced.

The first Gunns Statement of Claim was about 230 pages long.

The new one — luscious Eaglette declared — is about 350 pages long.

And she concluded, or Hag thought she concluded with a statement something like, “It is a document of such size and complexity that it is virtually impossible to understand.”

Perhaps that’s the whole idea …

And,

while I briefly have your attention Hag hears there is much rumbling in the classroom over Essential Learnings, that brainchild of the education boffins designed to well, provide our littel darlings with all that is essential in life.

When Hag was a little Haglette that used to be readin’. ritin, ‘rithmetic.

No longer it seems.