Cricket balls kept falling into their backyard and they got so annoyed they decided to go to court to stop the cricket team from playing and get compensation for years of emotional distress.This case was made famous because of Lord Denning’s overly melodramatic judgment, which, if you were to summarise it in two lines, went like this: “I love cricket, everybody loves cricket (without cricket our young boys will become social degenerates), so sod off you stupid twats.” He then spends some time stating that the cows that grazed there before the houses were built ‘did not mind the cricket’.Another highlight of the case was how all the judges proceeded to call Mrs Miller ‘neurotic’ and ‘unreasonable’. I love this question because every law student in a common law jurisdiction knows that the absurd cases are what really keep you alive.And thankfully, with centuries of case law and several macro-national as well as national sources of law to choose from, English law is particularly rife with these ludicrous cases.I’ll group up these interesting cases into several categories and leave out the Legalese where possible.LEVEL 1 (basic): CASES WITH ABSURD JUDGMENTSMiller v Jackson QB 966The Millers moved into a house next to a cricket pitch.
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