大象测试
外观
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大象测试是指想法或者事物“很难形容,但是当它出现的时候我能立刻认出来”的情况[1]。
使用
[编辑]这个词经常被用来在法律案件中,某个事件的翻译或者解释比较敏感或者开放的[2][3],如加多置业有限公司诉莫里斯的情况下,当大法官斯图尔特-史密斯提到了“众所周知大象测试。这很难形容,但当你看到它的时候你就知道它。”[4]
参考阅读
[编辑]引用
[编辑]- ^ 存档副本. [2014-08-01]. (原始内容存档于2013-06-03).Valuing and Judging Partners — Beyond the Elephant Test!, Edge International Review, Summer 2006
- ^ B.Wedderburn, The Worker and the Law (3rd ed, Harmondsworth, Penguin,1986), 116.
- ^ Catherine Barnard, The Personal Scope of the Employment Relationship (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆), in T.Araki and S.Ouchi (eds), The Mechanism for establishing and Changing Terms and Conditions of Employment/The Scope of Labor Law and the Notion of Employees, The Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training Report, 2004, vol.1, 131-136.
- ^ Cadogan Estates Ltd v Morris (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆); EWCA Civ 1671 (4 November 1998) (at paragraph 17)