The importance of the Clerkâs position was underlined by Lord Justice Caldecote ruling in Hurle-Hobbs ex parte Riley and another (1944) observed: âThe office of town clerk is an important part of the machinery of local government.
Along with the other three muscles of mastication (temporalis, medial pterygoid, and lateral pterygoid), the masseter is innervated by the anterior division of the mandibular division (V3) of the trigeminal nerve.
The deep peroneal nerve supplies the extensor digitorum longus, along with tibialis anterior, extensor hallucis longus, extensor digitorum brevis, peroneus tertius, and extensor hallucis brevis. Weakness of these muscles would be seen with an injury to the deep peroneal nerve.