The English humorist and writer, Sir A.P. Herbert is well-loved for his realistic series of satirical judgments and absurd legal accounts first set out in “Misleading Cases in the Common Law” which on several occasions were mistakenly reported by several newspapers as entirely factual.
A regular contributor to the sardonic publication ‘Punch,’ A.P.H was so successful with his false document literary technique that sought to create a sense of authenticity for works by seamlessly merging the real and fictitious,