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Teaching the judiciary: Busted!
8th June 2008
What does this video clip have to do with UK judges?
Hot on the heels of Neil McNaughton’s excellent article in lobby about high-profile judicial cases as a way in to teaching what can at first sight appear a dry topic, comes this great story about ex-Busted members losing their case for compensation.
‘Two original members of Busted have lost their £10m royalties battle.
Ki McPhail and Owen Doyle claimed they were forced to sign away their rights before being sacked from the band in October 2001.
The pair said they wrote songs with James Bourne and Matt Willis, including Year 3000 and What I Go To School For, when the group formed in 2001.
But the judge in the case, Mr Justice Morgan, dismissed their claims and criticised the evidence they gave.
He said McPhail had “convinced himself that his reconstructed version of events really happened” and Doyle “was not a reliable witness either”.’
Okay, so it isn’t a stormy judicial review of the government or parliamentary action, but it does contain some hilarious material.
McPhail and Doyle claimed that they were instrumental in crafting such unforgettable lyrics as:
“I can’t tell my friends ‘cos they will laugh/ I love a member of the staff/ And I fought my way to front of class/ To get the best view of her ass.”
See the video clip above.
Shameful. If it was me, I’d have kept my head down. Is £10m really worth having your name attached to that tripe?