Australia, July 2 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement:
1. HIS HONOUR: Correctly discerning meaning from text, speech, gestures and other cues is a vital life skill. A smile or a nod between a couple or friends or strangers "exchanging glances" [1] may be all that is needed to convey and receive clarity of intention.
2. However, the frailty of the human condition leads us to frequently only hear what we wish to hear and believe what we wish were true. We are susceptible to "filtering out" the unpleasant and "reading in" the beneficial. Within families, imprecise statements of intention or misconstruction of what is said or written, particularly regarding inheritance of property, has begotten...