Thursday, May 15, 2025

Local government lawyers: watchdogs who do not bark?

Do some louche local government lawyers rather remind us of the dog that did not bark in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes' story, The Adventure of Silver Blaze.

From Wikipedia:

Doyle considered "Silver Blaze" among his favourite Sherlock Holmes stories.[2] One of the most popular Sherlock Holmes short stories, "Silver Blaze" focuses on the disappearance of the eponymous race horse (a famous winner, owned by a Colonel Ross) on the eve of an important race and on the apparent murder of its trainer. The tale is distinguished by its atmospheric Dartmoor setting and late-Victorian sporting milieu. The plotting hinges on the "curious incident of the dog in the night-time":

Gregory (Scotland Yard detective): Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?  Holmes: To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time, Gregory: The dog did nothing in the night-time.  Holmes: That was the curious incident.  


 

 

1 comment:

Pete said...

Sounds like you want a county attorney who just sits there and does nothing for a good sum of money because surely they don't make decisions regarding development. Not sure why the focus on the county attorney just because he has friends and he has his own business. They should have hired some bum who associates with nobody? For what reason and how realistic?