On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 00:45:23 +0100, "IMM" wrote:


"Andy Hall" wrote in message

The Miller vs. Jackson case is very pertinent to this thread and
Denning sums up the point very eloquently.

"In summer time village cricket is the delight of everyone" was how
Lord Denning MR famously began his judgment in Miller v Jackson [1977]
1 QB 966, 976. An injunction had been granted to local householders
who complained of cricket balls landing in their gardens. Lord Denning
feared that, if it were upheld, cricket would cease in the village and
"the young men will turn to other things"

He held that the public interest in the playing of cricket should
prevail over the individual interests of the householders, and,
instead of the injunction, awarded £400 for past and future
inconvenience.

I don't know what the outcome of the "Hook the street trader" case
was, but the introduction to the judgment is hilarious.

He was a demented old fool.

Not what the evidence shows. No sign of dementia right up until
his death at aged 100.



..andy

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