Intentional Torts: Civil Claims, Remedies & Defences to Sex Abuse, Assault and Battery - A New Paradigm

I’ve just read your fascinating paper on intentional torts Peter. I haven’t seen or heard the expression “action on the case” since my Legal History lectures in 1968 and long assumed that younger lawyers would neither know what it was nor particularly care. But that is an aside. Your paper was not only informative and clearly articulated in plain and readable English but more significantly for me personally, it was intellectually stimulating and invigorating which rhetorically is probably a tautological or pleonastic description but so what. As an old legal lag and past consumer of millions of words and daily consumer of thousands, I can’t remember when my legal intellect was last moved in the same way. Now I have to read all your articles and view all your seminars which I’ll do when I get out of my pyjamas, have a shower and feed my dog which has been sitting observing me with some anxiety since I settled in to read your intentional torts piece. I went to school with your former Clerk, Michael Green and was a friend of his predecessor Barry Stone. As you appear to have read my Slater’s fillip, the “my counsel” to whom I refer in a follow-up on Stephen Plunkett is my old friend John Philbrick (later SC) who is/was on your List.

If anyone would like us to present the paper to their firms, we are happy to