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Chapter 07

The following is a link to a web site containing an enthusiast's account of the so-called Shavian alphabet. The will of George Bernard Shaw failed in its attempt to establish a trust for the purpose of research into this alphabet (Re Shaw [1957] 1 W.L.R. 729). The trust was held not to be a trust for the charitable purpose and therefore failed as being a trust purely for private purposes. However, the residuary beneficiaries of his will graciously awarded a prize to the best translation into the alphabet of one of Shaw's plays, and the alphabet has had enthusiastic supporters ever since.
www.members.aol.com/RSRICHMOND/shavian.html

Hunting Act 2004
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2004/ukpga_20040037_en_1

“Will leaves cat in clover” (BBC news report)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3003239.stm