Dog's inhumanity to man
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ANOTHER eminent lawyer who is unlikely to be remembered for his association with transport is Tom Field-Fisher, QC, who attracted national fame for his report on the circumstances surrounding the tragic death of little Maria Colwell at Brighton.
As a young barrister he was Commercial Motor legal correspondent. To my regret I have not met him for many years but I still remember some of his entertaining anecdotes.
He told me how when walking along a cliff top while on holiday in Cornwall he suffered grievous bodily harm from a livid farm dog, which also removed the seat of his trousers. Lacking his wig to cover his confusion, he slid down the cliff and waited for the tide to recede so that he could walk back along the beach to his hotel, without, he hoped, meeting anyone.
Man's best friend had bitten a trustee of Battersea Dogs' Home.