Board of Inland Revenue v Haddock
Board of Inland Revenue v Haddock is a fictitious legal case written by the humorist A. P. Herbert for Punch magazine as part of his series of Misleading Cases in the Common Law. It was first published in book form in More Misleading Cases in the Common Law. The case evolved into an urban legend.
The case of the negotiable cow, collected in Uncommon Law
Sir Alan Patrick Herbert CH, was an English humorist, novelist, playwright, law reformist, and, from 1935 to 1950, an independent Member of Parliament for Oxford University.
Herbert in a 1910s illustration
Soldiers of the Royal Naval Division training to leave a trench during Gallipoli, 1915
Blue plaque, 12 Hammersmith Terrace
12 Hammersmith Terrace