Nine of the most bizarre reasons people have gone to court

Courts are there for a very important reason – they maintain law and order, send criminals to jail, sort out money issues and try to ensure the world is a safer and more civilised place.

But you have to feel for the judges and magistrates who preside over these institutions of justice and fairness: sometimes the cases that land before them are just plain curious.

Take a recent issue that ended up in a magistrate’s court in Kampala, Uganda. The matter: an aggrieved member of a WhatsApp group who’d been booted from the platform.