There’s a scary side to all those bizarre cases before the courts

WE ARE approaching the silly season when zany stories get big play because the politicians who are supposedly running the country are off on holidays.

The courts have not shut down yet, so court cases have been getting inordinate space recently.

In the Territorial Supreme Court of Canberra, Australia, this week, the lesbian parents of twins lost their lawsuit against their doctor for the cost of raising one of their toddlers. The pair employed the doctor to help one of them to have a child through IVF (in vitro fertilisation).