大象测试
词语“大象”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
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
引用
- ^ [1]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, 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; EWCA Civ 1671 (4 November 1998) (at paragraph 17)