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Comment: Less abstraction and more clarity
Mark Pawlowski questions the usefulness of legal fictions in leasehold law ‘What is clear is that the conduct of the reasonable man is not established by the evidence of witnesses, but by the application of an impersonal legal standard by the court.’ A recurring concern among legal practitioners is the fear of uncertainty in our …
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