Engineering an appearance in court?

[hogarth]

@Northern_Piper

I mentioned it in a thread a year or two ago, about “Friendly litigation”

I’m pretty sure it was that thread I was thinking about, but maybe the other case you mentioned:

Is the phrase 'friendly litigation' used by GOP Senator Josh Hawley a standard phrase?

I just happened to come across a case which is an example of this type of litigation: Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario v. The Coniagas Reduction Company, Limited, [1933] UKPC 44, on appeal from the Ontario Supreme Court to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London. At issue was an agreement between two companies that apparently had a good working relationship, but they could not determine if the agreement (which they had inherited from their predecessors) was perpetual i…