Opening lines of judgments

And the award for Best Opening Line of a Case goes to...

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Lord Justice Rose, in Walkers Snack Foods Ltd v Coventry City Council (1998), for this line:

"It seems unlikely that A.P Herbert, even at his most felicitously inventive could have imagined the scenario which this appeal presents to this court.

In June 1995 a student bought, at a supermarket in Coventry, a packet of crisps manufactured by the appellant defendants.

In it was a piece of white plastic, measuring in millimetres: 53 by 15 by 20. It was of an unusual and striking shape."