The Snail in the Ginger Beer
and Other Stories
Written for children, this book tells lots of funny stories, a few with songs, about all sorts of peculiar things that people have gone to a court to argue about.
And they are ALL TRUE!
Stories:
The Snail in the Ginger Beer
The Jet That Jumped
Mrs Carlill And The Amazing Carbolic Smoke Ball Dancing Horses
The Danger of Hot Dogs
Trespassing Bees
Those Supersized Big Macs
Diamond Jim
An Uber Fart
Brought to life by the wonderful illustrations of the late Murray Nicol and Vincent Gangloff, the book tells children about these funny, bizarre and idiotic disputes in an understandable, interesting and amusing way.
The first five stories cover the law of torts, but the others cover the law of contract and criminal law.
While the book is aimed at children, it has a wider appeal and will entertain all the mums and dads – in fact anyone really.
The Author
Stephen Todd is an Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He has spent his career writing about the law of torts and the law of contract and, in particular, is the general editor and principal author of Todd on Torts (9th edition, 2023), and the joint author of The Law of Contract in New Zealand (7th edition, 2022).
When his then six-year-old grandson saw that he had written a book about torts, he asked, very reasonably, “What is a tort?” And so Stephen’s first volume of law stories for children was born.
Stephen has also written Leading Cases in Song (2014), a light-hearted rewriting of some leading decisions as songs, with music and illustrations.
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