Introduction

If you want to observe a real clash of cultures, one might be tempted to say, it is hard to find more sound and fury than what emerges when rival French lawyers appear on both sides, or rival Londoners on both sides, or Cairenes or New Yorkers! For then, it often seems, the combatants leave no prisoners, and urge vehemently that starkly different procedural arrangements be adopted, each camp insisting all the while that what they seek is but the normal course of well-ordered events. Their opponents, of course, are the ones attempting to mislead the tribunal with self-serving requests ...