High Court judge does a 'Da Vinci'

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http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-13520898,00.html


A secret code has been hidden in a High Court judgment by the judge at the centre of the Da Vinci Code copyright trial.

Mr Justice Peter Smith took a leaf out of Dan Brown's global best-seller to hide his own message in the 71-page court document.

It emerged that italicised letters in the first seven paragraphs of the document spell out "Smithy Code".

Over the next few pages more letters stand out from the text in italics, but in an apparently random order.

The move to hide a message in a formal High Court judgment is thought to be unprecedented in legal history.

 

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SOLVED:

http://newsbox.msn.co.uk/article.as...n.co.uk/mediaexportlive&ks=0&mc=5&ml=ma&lc=en

Not very exciting

I take it you guys had never heard of the Word Game they play in court then? The two opposing barristers each select for the other a word that has to be dropped into something they say in court that day. They must not be obcenities, but anything else goes. The idea is that the word should be entirely unrelated to the matter at hand, so it is as hard as possible to introduce it into a speech without the whole court going "wtf?", and the judge asking: "Are you two playing the word game again? If so, it's two days in the cells".

When I was last advocating our favourite was fitting Sting songs into our bail applications. Song titles are much more fun than words.

 

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Although I do find this funny I just wonder if it might be grounds for an appeal. I'm no legal expert but couldn't the guys who lost the case claim the judge didn't take it seriously or he was biased towards Dan Brown because he obviously likes codes.

No grounds for appeal here. The document bears no relevance to the judgment he made. All he did was italicise some letters in his judgment. Doesn't mean he had any predisposition towards codes or Dan Brown.

 

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Fair enough, wouldn't be surprised if they tried anyway, heh. I doubt they're happy about it, sort of added insult to injury.

Yeah I agree there. They are probably a bit angry because, in a way, the Judge has treated it a bit like a game.