Comments on: Fore! http://www.slaw.ca/2009/11/20/fore/ Canada's online legal magazine Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:49:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David Cheifetz http://www.slaw.ca/2009/11/20/fore/comment-page-1/#comment-708818 David Cheifetz Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:52:07 +0000 http://www.slaw.ca/?p=14287#comment-708818 By the way, the trial judgment was recently affirmed: <a href="http://www.canlii.org/en/ns/nsca/doc/2009/2009nsca113/2009nsca113.html" rel="nofollow">Hayter v. Bezanson, 2009 NSCA 113 (CanLII</a>). One of the comments made by the court, in dismissing the defendent's appeal was: "An appeal isn’t a mulligan for the facts." Don't blame me. I didn't write the thing. Besides, I've my own issues with NS judges. Some years back, one of them referred to an article I'd written as "complete, if not overly analytical". I think he meant "too analytical" not, "not analytical enough". By the way, the trial judgment was recently affirmed: Hayter v. Bezanson, 2009 NSCA 113 (CanLII). One of the comments made by the court, in dismissing the defendent's appeal was: "An appeal isn’t a mulligan for the facts."

Don't blame me. I didn't write the thing.

Besides, I've my own issues with NS judges. Some years back, one of them referred to an article I'd written as "complete, if not overly analytical". I think he meant "too analytical" not, "not analytical enough".

]]> By: David Cheifetz http://www.slaw.ca/2009/11/20/fore/comment-page-1/#comment-708816 David Cheifetz Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:40:20 +0000 http://www.slaw.ca/?p=14287#comment-708816 The <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2009/11/24/a-post-about-beer-golf-pot-hollywood-and-canadian-tort-law/" rel="nofollow">Wall Street Journal Law Blog</a> links to Mark's post. Mention Slaw, too, as "the Slaw": "Click here for more on the case, from the Slaw — a Canadian law blog." The Wall Street Journal Law Blog links to Mark's post. Mention Slaw, too, as "the Slaw": "Click here for more on the case, from the Slaw — a Canadian law blog."

]]> By: Simon Fodden http://www.slaw.ca/2009/11/20/fore/comment-page-1/#comment-708533 Simon Fodden Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:47:11 +0000 http://www.slaw.ca/?p=14287#comment-708533 France's Thierry Henry may not have "taken a run at it," à la Happy Gilmore, but he definitely "gave it a hand." I wonder whether we'll get to see a judge somewhere opine on the standard of care owed to soccer players -- and fans -- world wide. There's a nice piece on <a href="http://blogs.golf.com/presstent/2009/11/harrington-golfers-dont-cheat-unlike-french-soccer-players.html" rel="nofollow">Golf.com</a> about the contrast between the ethics (soi-disant) of soccer and those of golf; it's by an Irishman, of course. If you haven't seen Thierry's unorthodox play, there's a decent video at: http://bit.ly/p6qUu France's Thierry Henry may not have "taken a run at it," à la Happy Gilmore, but he definitely "gave it a hand." I wonder whether we'll get to see a judge somewhere opine on the standard of care owed to soccer players — and fans — world wide. There's a nice piece on Golf.com about the contrast between the ethics (soi-disant) of soccer and those of golf; it's by an Irishman, of course. If you haven't seen Thierry's unorthodox play, there's a decent video at: http://bit.ly/p6qUu

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