Wikipedia, milaard!
So, at the last hearing of a tax appeal, a lawyer appearing for the Government relied on something from Wikipedia. This page, specifically.
Yesterday, Porus Kaka, a lawyer from Bombay arguing for the taxpayer, brought a printout of the same page, submitted it to the judges, and said, "My Lords, this is the same Wikipedia page the Revenue was relying on last time. I have made a few changes to this webpage to suit my case." Dramatic pause. "I'm not casting any aspersions on my Learned Friend, I'm only showing My Lords how Wikipedia works."
The judge smiled, and said, "No, Mr. Kaka. We weren't going to rely on this anyway."
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When will our Supreme Court stop using Wikipedia?
(See here, here, here, here, here and here.)
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Vox populi, vox dei. Apparently if Law works that way, so can Justice.
Wrote a long comment and it disappeared. *sigh*
Read: http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/1358324/
and
http://business.in.com/article/breakpoint/veni-vidi-wiki-wikipedia-in-courts/18612/1
[Disclaimer: I am on the board of the Wikimedia Chapter, India]
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