Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Best Application to Extend Time Ever
Lawyers are frequently over worked so applications to extend time are not unusual and a first such application is normally given (unless prejudice would be caused to the opposing side). But in all my years of legal practice, I have never seen an application like this one on the right.
If the picture is too small, the application reads:
Ever failed to complete some assignment and need an extension of time from your teacher or boss? In the legal world, when you need an extension of time from the Court, you sometimes have to file a written application for it.
Lawyers are frequently over worked so applications to extend time are not unusual and a first such application is normally given (unless prejudice would be caused to the opposing side). But in all my years of legal practice, I have never seen an application like this one on the right.If the picture is too small, the application reads:
"[The lawyer] respectfully requests another one-day extension, to Monday March 5, 2007 to respond to [the opposing side's] bill of costs. As grounds therefor, the undersigned states that she had almost completed this response on the due date ... but suspended her work in order to take a friend out to dinner for his birthday. When she came back, she was unable to finish it, due to the wine :-) ... Wherefore, inebriation constituting excusable neglect, and no prejudice inuring to the other parties, the court should grant the present extension, as it is in the interest of justice."
Not only did she ask for an extension of time because she got drunk, she also put a smiley emoticon in her legal pleading! Maybe she started in primary school by saying her dog ate her homework and gradually worked her way up the late excuse ladder?
It apparently worked though because it appears that the Judge granted her request for an extension of time! But I doubt I'll be using that excuse or smileys in my Court papers any time soon.
# posted by Fore! @ 3:12 PM 
