# Engineering an appearance in court?

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> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> 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?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-phrase-friendly-litigation-used-by-gop-senator-josh-hawley-a-standard-phrase/942170/13):
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> 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](http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKPC/1933/1933_44.pdf), 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…

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