Despite this, when a huge, growling, starving dog comes along, he kindly shares his pie because he thinks that is the fair thing to do. Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages. It says, 'I'll come clean'; it suggests sincerity and honesty ('to be honest, I just haven't got round to it', 'to be honest, I just don't know'). Likewise, we should think about the ethical problems we encounter in medicine and try to agree in advance on how to deal with them, using those four principles to help us. Plans were delayed and the budget substantially reduced, making commercial sponsorship not merely symbolic of the new age, but also a financial necessity.

The Plan was sanctioned, despite effecting a departure from the ordinary distribution waterfall in the relevant alternative, and one of the reasons cited by the Court (at [42]) was that HMRC had full notice of the Plan and, although they had voted against it, failed to attend the hearing to present any arguments against sanction. Fair’s Fair’ features an unlikely hero, a “thin small and ugly” orphaned boy who lives on the city streets. This is largely analogous to the horizontal comparator used to determine cases of unfair prejudice in company voluntary arrangements and has been used as a discretionary factor in cases of cross-class cram down as early as Re DeepOcean 1 UK Ltd (see Mr Justice Trower’s comments at [62]).Nine year olds are often incredibly preoccupied with fairness, and unfortunately anything which they perceive to be as unfair is met with a chorus of disapproval. There is certainly evidence for this notion in such cases as Re Hong Kong Airlines Ltd where this was the only test applied to judge the fairness of the Plan (and the test was quickly satisfied).

In that case, HMRC (as a compromised Plan creditor) noted their objections in principle to the debtor’s Plan but failed to ‘ step up to the plate’ and make representations to that effect at Court.The WMA (World Medical Association) recently added ‘fairness’ to its International Code of Medical Ethics, thanks partly to Prof Gillon’s lobbying on behalf of the BMA.