A planning battle over an old village forge next to a cricket pitch yesterday led to a High Court judge asking: ‘What are sixes and fours?’
East Meon Forge and Cricket Ground Protection Association is challenging East Hampshire District Council’s decision to grant planning permission for an extension with a residential first floor over the single-storey former blacksmith’s workshop.
Robert Fookes, appearing for the association, said that one of the grounds of objection to the development was that the forge was very close to the square on which cricket is played.
He told Mrs Justice Beverley Lang ‘sixes and fours are frequently hit by batsmen on to forge land, including the roof of the building itself’.
However, the baffled 59-year-old judge, sitting at London’s High Court, said: ‘I don’t play cricket - what does that mean?’
Mr Fookes replied that sixes were scored in cricket when the ball was hit over the boundary without hitting the ground, while fours ‘bounced along the ground’ before crossing the boundary line.
He added that six runs or four runs were scored automatically without the batsman having to run the runs.
Mrs Justice Lang made no further comment on the game and the court turned to consider the dimensions of the controversial development in East Meon, in the South Downs National Park.
The judge was educated at Wycombe Abbey School and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she is an honorary fellow. She has been a High Court judge since 2011.
You cannot get good judges these days
You cannot get good judges these days
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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That judge doesn't waste any of her time...
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Lord Joe
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There have been so many posts here about wacky judges, it's refreshing to see a story about a sensible one...
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Sensible one? she's dressed like Santa Claus without the beard.
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Speaking of which it occurred to me that the most terrifying Halloween costume would be Santa.
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Well, if you dirty up the costume and beard you could go as the guy in Slay Ride (aka Silent Night, Deadly Night)
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Don't even have to do that. The best thing is the next year you go trick or treating on the 30th and say you come darker every year.
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Re: You cannot get good judges these days
Raceophobic!Crackpot wrote:Don't even have to do that. The best thing is the next year you go trick or treating on the 30th and say you come darker every year.
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
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Fucking autocorrect
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