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Tipsy Coachman
Barrister Amna (Alevels Academy Islamabad)
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9/4/2024
A Levels Academy Islamabad
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00:00
You may have noticed the law is full of odd, arcane, baffling terminology.
00:07
Floating easement or ejustum generis, anyone?
00:10
But once in a while, a term comes along that is not only colloquial and amusing, but also legitimate.
00:16
That term is tipsy coachman.
00:19
Yes, tipsy, as in inebriated, and coachman, as in, well, coachman.
00:26
Now, tipsy coachman is not a literal description.
00:29
It's actually a rule of law where a higher court upholds a lower court's correct conclusion,
00:34
despite it being based on flawed reasoning.
00:36
Basically, tipsy coachman is saying the initial judgment was right, but for the wrong reasons.
00:42
As long as the right reasons are somewhere in the appellate record,
00:45
and the higher court agrees with the result itself, the trial court's ruling will not be reversed.
00:51
Like a carriage driver, just under the legal limit,
00:54
who eventually gets his passenger home, even if he took all the wrong roads.
00:58
Although tipsy coachman as a legal expression wasn't used in Florida until 1963,
01:04
the term itself originated in a case back in 1890s Georgia.
01:08
The phrase tipsy coachman was taken from a passage in a 1774 poem written by Oliver Goldsmith.
01:15
And it touches on the idea that, to quote the original Georgia case,
01:19
the human mind is so constituted that in many instances,
01:24
it will find the truth when wholly unable to find the way that leads to it.
01:29
In more down-to-earth speak, it basically makes successfully appealing a case that much more difficult,
01:35
as tipsy coachman is also designed to avoid pointless re-litigation.
01:39
But it remains up for debate in Florida whether tipsy coachman is mandatory or discretionary for an appellate court,
01:46
meaning whether an appeals court must use tipsy coachman when it applies,
01:51
or if the decision is up to the appeals court whether to use it or not.
01:55
But don't rely on a drunken carriage driver to get what you need out of the law.
01:59
Rely on LegalYou, as steady a resource as they come.
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LegalYou. You can do this.
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