LAW REPORTS HAVE NEVER been ranked highly as a form of literature. And yet, within the printed volumes of higher casuistry, the careful reader may find stories of the human condition which would otherwise have escaped the written record, slices of the mundane forever etched on paper through the process of the law.
Predominantly they are about greed and deceit; but even in a place as unpromising as the reports of the old Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division one can occasionally glean a love story.
In October 1970,
