Obiter can’t resist just a few more of those dictation blunders.

Favourites this week have been a puzzling reference to a Russian Owl in the transcript of a judge’s summing up, which turned out to be a rationale.

One solicitor was surprised to find a character called Farmer Sutical in a business lease, while a letter from a surveyor claimed one particular set of plans was a ‘pigment of the imagination’.

A district judge tells us of a secretary with a particular problem with acts of parliament, leading to the Watery Sauces Act 1963 (water resources) and the Small Swellings Act 1923 (small dwellings).

Other bloopers include an officious bystander test becoming a vicious bystander test, peaceable re-entry typed as peaceful rear entry, and some bullock-proof fencing – doubtless erected by Farmer Sutical.