English Public Law & Pulp Fiction

1. Unlawful Subdelegation, Fettering of Discretion
"Hey my name is Paul and this shit is between y'all."
-English Dave the Bartender to Vincent Vega

2. Illegality, Irrationality & Procedural Impropriety, Judicial Review
"Look, just because I wouldn't give no man a foot massage, don't make it right for Marsellus to throw Antwan off a building into a glass-motherfuckin-house, fuckin' up the way the nigger talks."
-Jules Winfield to Vincent Vega

3. Stop & Search, PACE Acts
"It's legal to buy it, it's legal to own it and, if you're the proprietor of a hash bar, it's legal to sell it. It's legal to carry it, which doesn't really matter 'cause -- get a load of this -- if the cops stop you, it's illegal for this to search you. Searching you is a right that the cops in Amsterdam don't have."
-Vincent Vega to Jules Winfield

4. Estoppel or Misleading Advice, Fettering of Discretion
"The truth, of course. Three well-dressed, slightly toasted Mexicans."
-Esmeralda Villalobos to Butch Coolidge

5. Human Rights Act 1998, Freedom from Torture & Inhuman or Degrading Treatment, Article 3
"Naw man... I'm pretty fuckin' far from okay."
-Marcellus Wallace to Butch Coolidge

6. Fairness & A Duty to Give Reasons, Legitimate Expectation
"This fucked up bitch is Marsellus Wallace's wife. Now if she fuckin' croaks on me, I'm a grease spot. But before he turns me into a bar soap, I'm gonna be forced to tell 'im about how you coulda saved her life, but instead you let her die on your front lawn."
-Vincent Vega to Lance

7. Proportionality, Wednesbury Unreasonableness
"A husband being protective of his wife is one thing. A husband almost killing another man for touching his wife's feet is something else."
-Mia Wallace to Vincent Vega

(all quotes written by that man, Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction, Miramax 1994. a copy of this film is available here on video, for a promotional price of only GBP0.77 to loyal readers of this website. yes, i'm a shameless opportunist whore...but "i'm the foot-fuckin-master".)

ciao.

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Word Of The Wolf today is incongruous \in-KONG-groo-us\,

adjective:
1. Lacking in harmony, compatibility, or appropriateness.
2. Inconsistent with reason, logic, or common sense.

"It is not uncommon for law students to produce outrageously incongruous work after many nights of taxing lucubration."

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Incongruous comes from Latin incongruus, from in-, "not"+ congruus, "agreeing, fit, suitable," from congruere, "to run together, to come together, to meet."