Before you go about judging the judges of the Court of Appeal on their five-minute oral decision which they handed down on Friday, May 22, 2009, please bear in mind the wise words of the most liberal of American judges, judge Learned Hand who once wrote ‘The Spirit of Liberty', p 110:

"... while it is proper that the people should find fault when the judges fail, it is only reasonable that they should recognise the difficulties. ... Let them be severely brought to book, when they go wrong, but by those who will take the trouble to understand."