ABSTRACT
The recurring perplexity of non-jurists faced with the distortion between the written words of the law and the outcome of their personal case before the court could very well echo the wry comment of a Lewis Carroll character:
He thought he saw an Elephant, That practised on a fife: He looked again and found it was A letter from his wife. ‘At length I realise,’ he said, ‘The bitterness of life!’ (1988, 65).
